Qué alborato es este? (What is this hubbub?); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 65 (one of the "caprichos enfáticos")
Drawn and etched about 1814–15; published 1863
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828), Printer Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 185, III, 1; Delteil 0184
Dimensions
Platemark: 17.5 x 22 cm (6 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.) Sheet: 24.5 x 33.5 cm (9 5/8 x 13 3/16 in.)
Accession Number
M21914.65
Medium or Technique
Etching, burnished aqatint/lavis (sulfur tint?), burin, and burnisher; posthumous first edition
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
From posthumous first edition (1863), with title and 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.
Markings
No watermark
Provenance
Purchased 6/1/1911
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, by exchange