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Curarlos, y á otra. (Take care of them and on to the next); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 20.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Etched 1810

Medium/Technique Etching, drypoint, and burin; working proof
Dimensions Platemark: 16.2 x 23.7 cm (6 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.3 x 32 cm (8 3/4 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line 1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1644
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 140, I, 1; Delteil 0139
DescriptionBlack ink, clean-wiped. No bevel.
Working proof, before numbers and letters, before signature and date, before additional etching, and before lavis (H. I, 1).
Marks ROMANI (fragment of whole name)
Inscriptionsu.r. within pm., in graphite 20.
Provenance1863, sold by Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818–d. 1878), Keir House, Scotland; 1878, by inheritance to his son, Brigadier General Archibald Stirling (b. 1867–d. 1931), Keir House; 1931, by inheritance to his son, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph Stirling (b. 1911–d. 1983), Keir House; September 13, 1951, sold by William Joseph Stirling, through Colnaghi & Co. and Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)