Bien tirada está. (It is nicely stretched); Plate 17 bound into "Los Caprichos"
Drawn and etched 1797–98; published 1799
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828), Other artist Unidentified artist, Spanish, 19th century (Spanish)
Place of Publication: Madrid, Spain
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 036-115, first edition; Delteil 038-117
Dimensions
Overall (each vol.): 23.5 x 17.8 x 1.2 cm (9 1/4 x 7 x 1/2 in.) Other (Slipcase): 24.7 x 3.7 x 19.5cm (9 3/4 x 1 7/16 x 7 11/16in.)
Accession Number
2002.496.17
Medium or Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, and burin; first edition in bound set of eighty hand-colored etching and aquatints, with manuscript annotations
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
(Madrid: 1799) Octavo, two vols.; (v. 1) 3 leaves text, plus 40 plates; (v. 2) 4 ll. text, plus 40 plates; contemporary blue paper wrappers, contemporary pen and brown ink titling on spines (blue cloth box).
Provenance
Unidentified collector's mark bottom of first plate each volume (fragment of "M": perhaps Gustave-François Morin, Rouen 1809-1886, painter [see Lugt 1178]; see also Lugt 1850); Eleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA; her bequest to MFA October 23, 2002.
Credit Line
Bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre