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Que hai que hacer mas? [Qué hai que hacer mas?] (What more can be done?); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 33

Drawn and etched about 1810–14; published 1863

Medium/Technique Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, and burnishing; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 15.7 x 20.7 cm (6 3/16 x 8 1/8 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 NumberM21914.33
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 153, III, 1, a; Delteil 0152; Gassier and Wilson 1048
DescriptionBrown ink, plate-tone. Bevel.
Impression with title "Que hai que hacer mas" later corrected to "Qué hai que hacer mas" (accent added on first Qué)

From posthumous first edition (1863), with letters and number, before correction in letters (accent to e of Que) (Harris III, 1, a). 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 Watermark: O of(JGO)
InscriptionsEngraved, u.l. 33, l.l, 42(uninked, bc: "Que hai que hacer mas"
ProvenancePurchased 6/1/1911