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Modo con que los antiguos españoles cazaban los toros á caballo en el campo. (The way in which the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the open country); from the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting), plate 1


El modo con que antiguos españoles cazaban los Toros á caballo en el campo
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1815–16; published 1816

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, and drypoint; first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 25 x 35.1 cm (9 13/16 x 13 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 25.8 x 35.8 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.) (trimmed)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number25.1171
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 204, III, 1; Delteil 0224; Gassier and Wilson 1149
DescriptionFirst edition, published 1816 (H. III, 1).
Marks No watermark
ProvenanceKatherine Eliot Bullard (b. 1866- d. 1920) Boston; Ellen Bullard (d. 1959), Boston; gift to MFA, 11/1/1925