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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos.) Caprichos 43

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1797–1799

Medium/Technique Etching and aquatint with burnishing (first edition)
Dimensions Platemark: 21 x 15 cm (8 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 31.5 x 22.2 cm (12 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession Number2002.503
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 078, III, 1; Delteil 080; GW 0536
DescriptionGW: 0536. Also faint drypoint to indicate letters
InscriptionsUpper right in engraving: 43.; title in stopped-out aquatint
ProvenanceEleanor A. Sayre (b. 1916–d. 2001), Cambridge, MA; 2002, bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre to the MFA.