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Siempre sucede. (It always happens); from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 8, mounted in a bound album
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1813-14; this set printed 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/Technique
Etching and drypoint, posthumous trial proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 17.8 x 21.9 cm (7 x 8 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 26.2 x 34.8 cm (10 5/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.2 x 34.8 cm (10 5/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1973.732.8
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 128, I, 2; Delteil 0127
DescriptionPosthumous trial proof, with number, before letters of title, before borderline complete with the plate corrosion burnished and additional drypoint on saddle of horse back left (H. II, 1).
Red/brown ink, plate-tone, no bevel.
Mounted in an album of posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862; bound in brown marbled (?) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine: "LOS/ DESASTRES/ DE/ LA GUERRA/ POR/ F. GOYA" and below, "MADRID/ 1810". On front cover: Decorative cartouche with the letters: C A N C F O R W A R D. On back cover: Gold decoration of interwoven circles with Latin mottos (?), surrounded by "NON · MORTALE · QUOD · OPTO". 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove.
Inside front cover is large bookplate of William Stirling, the sticker of Frances Hofer and various cataloguing notes in graphite that continue onto first flyleaf (the notes are by P. Hofer and E. A. Sayre and others).
Title page, printed in letter press:
LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA / COLECCION DE LAMINAS / INVENTADAS Y GRABADAS AL AGUAFUERTE. / POR / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. / MADRID / 1810
(This titlepage is rare, or perhaps unique)
Tipped in on next two fly leaves are notes by William Stirling (1864) and Archibald Stirling (1925) on blue writing paper.
Red/brown ink, plate-tone, no bevel.
Mounted in an album of posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862; bound in brown marbled (?) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine: "LOS/ DESASTRES/ DE/ LA GUERRA/ POR/ F. GOYA" and below, "MADRID/ 1810". On front cover: Decorative cartouche with the letters: C A N C F O R W A R D. On back cover: Gold decoration of interwoven circles with Latin mottos (?), surrounded by "NON · MORTALE · QUOD · OPTO". 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove.
Inside front cover is large bookplate of William Stirling, the sticker of Frances Hofer and various cataloguing notes in graphite that continue onto first flyleaf (the notes are by P. Hofer and E. A. Sayre and others).
Title page, printed in letter press:
LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA / COLECCION DE LAMINAS / INVENTADAS Y GRABADAS AL AGUAFUERTE. / POR / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. / MADRID / 1810
(This titlepage is rare, or perhaps unique)
Tipped in on next two fly leaves are notes by William Stirling (1864) and Archibald Stirling (1925) on blue writing paper.
Marks
JG and half-palmette
InscriptionsEngraved u.l. 8; in graphite, u.r. inside pm, 8, below image, inside pm., Siempre sucede.
ProvenanceCharles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi, April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased from R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).