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Hasta la muerte. (Until Death); Caprichos 55


Until Death (Hasta la muerte) Caprichos 55
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched, 1797–98; published 1799

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, and drypoint; first edition, with ms. annotations by a contemporary in brown ink
Dimensions Platemark: 22 x 15.4 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.3 x 19.7 cm (11 15/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession Number14.1784
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 090, III, 1; Delteil 092; Gassier & Wilson 561
DescriptionGW: 0561. Completed plate, before bevel, first edition, published 1799 (H. III, 1).
Marks Verso: stamp in brown ink of MFA, Boston (Lugt 282) with ledger number in graphite
InscriptionsEngraved, u.r.: 55; b.c. Hasta la muerte.
Added inscription in brown ink, on petticoat of old woman: Luisita / la R....
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)