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Las camas de la muerte. (The beds of death); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 62

Drawn and etched about 1812–14; published 1863

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin, and burnisher; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 17.7 x 22.1 cm (6 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.5 x 33.5 cm (9 5/8 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, by exchange
Accession NumberM21914.62
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 182, III, 1; Delteil 0181
DescriptionFrom posthumous first edition (1863), with title and number (Harris III, 1). Made in the workshop of Laurenciano Potenciano for the Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, completed March, 1863.

Volume bound in brown morocco, with gold letters on spine: "GOYA/ LOS DESASTRES/ DE LA/ GUERRA" and below, "MADRID/ 1863". Volume: 25.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm. (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.). The sheets are gold tipped. Title page reproduced, P. Hofer, The Disasters of War, N.Y.: Dover, 1967, p. 4. There is a two page introduction.
Marks Half-palmette
ProvenancePurchased 6/1/1911