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Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
Following a traumatic
illness in 1792, Spanish Academy artist and court painter Francisco José de Goya
Y Lucientes turned his back on the decorative scenes and portraits that had
built his reputation to pursue the morbid and fantastical images that would come
to define his mature style. One of the most celebrated and masterful etchers in
the history of the medium, Goya’s savage satirical attacks on Spanish society,
the abuses of the Church, war and human nature are given vivid expression in his
individual prints and four major print series:
Los Caprichos,
Los Desastres de la Guerra,
La Tauromaquia, and
Los Proverbios
Los
Desastres de la Guerra
Colección de ochenta láminas
inventadas y grabadas al agua-forte / Por / Don Francisco Goya / Publicala in
Real Academia de Belles Artes de San Fernando / Madrid / 1906. The first edition
was published in 1863 in an edition of 500. The second edition was printed in
the Calcografia for the Real Academia in 1892 in an edition of 100 impressions.
Harris says that the plates were probably steel-faced before the making of this
edition and notes that the edition is generally well printed but that the
impressions are considerably inferior to those of the first edition. The third
edition was also made in the Calcografia for the Real Academia and was printed
in 1903 in an edition of 100 impressions, which Harris describes as "very
inferior to the second" edition. The fourth edition was made in the Calcografia
for the Real Academia in 1906 Harris describes it as "excellently printed on
very suitable papers. The impressions are generally a little inferior to those
of the second edition but are better than those of the third
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Two single
prints from the fourth edition of the disasters of the war. Excellent impressions from the 1906 edition of Los Desastres de la Guerra," |
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"Even Worse." Text in the lower portion of the image reads: Tante Y Mas Signed "Goya 1810." Approximate Dimensions: 5 x 7 7/8 inches. Harris 142 III 4. Etching. Plate 22 |
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