Ya van desplumados. (There they go plucked (i.e. fleeced); Plate 20 from the series "Los Caprichos"

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Ya van desplumados. (There they go plucked (i.e. fleeced); Plate 20 from the series "Los Caprichos"

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, and drypoint; first edition, with handwritten annotations in brown ink.

Dimensions Platemark: 21.8 x 15.2 cm (8 9/16 x 6 in.)
Sheet: 30.3 x 20 cm (11 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard

Accession Number14.1769

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 055, III, 1; Delteil 057

DescriptionCompleted plate, before bevel, first edition, published 1799 (H. III, 1).

ProvenanceBy 1913, Francis Bullard (b. 1862 – d. 1913), Boston; 1913, by inheritance to his sister, Katherine Eliot Bullard (b. 1866 – d. 1920), Boston; 1914, gift of Katherine Eliot Bullard to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 23, 2018)