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And His House Is on Fire (Ysele quema la Casa.) Caprichos 18
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1797–1799
Medium/Technique
Etching and aquatint with burnishing and drypoint (in bound volume of pre-publication trial proofs)
Dimensions
Platemark: 21.9 x 15.4 cm (8 5/8 x 6 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 30 x 20 cm (11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 30 x 20 cm (11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB4165.18
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Bound sets
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 053, II; Delteil 055; GW 0487
DescriptionCompleted plate, before bevel, pre-publication impression.
From a bound pre-publication set of so-called trial proofs (H. II);
bound in brown sprinkled (mottled) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine in gold on black: CAPRICH / DE/ GOYA; 31.0 x 21.3; in red slipcase, 31.8 x 22.8 cm
From a bound pre-publication set of so-called trial proofs (H. II);
bound in brown sprinkled (mottled) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine in gold on black: CAPRICH / DE/ GOYA; 31.0 x 21.3; in red slipcase, 31.8 x 22.8 cm
Inscriptionsupper right in etching: 18.; lower center: title
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (b. 1826–d. 1899), Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Acquired 12 June 1900.)