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Esto es malo. (This is bad); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 46

Drawn and etched about 1810–14; published 1863

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished (salt or sand) aquatint, lavis, drypoint, and burnisher; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 15.6 x 20.8 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.5 x 33.5 cm (9 5/8 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, by exchange
Accession NumberM21914.46
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 166, III, 1; Delteil 0165
DescriptionFrom posthumous first edition (1863), with title and final number (Harris III, 1). Made in the workshop of Laurenciano Potenciano for the Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, completed March, 1863.

Volume bound in brown morocco, with gold letters on spine: "GOYA/ LOS DESASTRES/ DE LA/ GUERRA" and below, "MADRID/ 1863". Volume: 25.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm. (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.). The sheets are gold tipped. Title page reproduced, P. Hofer, The Disasters of War, N.Y.: Dover, 1967, p. 4. There is a two page introduction.
Marks No watermark
ProvenancePurchased 6/1/1911