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Lo merecia. (He deserved it); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 29

Drawn and etched about 1810-12; published 1863

Medium/Technique Etching, drypoint, and burin; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 18 x 22 cm (7 1/16 x 8 11/16 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 NumberM21914.29
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 149, III, 1; Delteil 0148
DescriptionBrown ink, plate-tone. Plate bevel
From posthumous first edition (1863), with letters 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.
Marks No watermark
Inscriptionsu.l., engraved, 29; posthumously engraved, b.c.: Lo merecia.
ProvenancePurchased 6/1/1911