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Lo mismo. (Likewise); from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 3, mounted in a bound album


The Same
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1811-12; posthumous impression, 1862

Medium/Technique Etching, lavis (direct etching), drypoint, burin, and burnisher; posthumous trial proof. mounted in a bound album
Dimensions Platemark: 16 × 22.3 cm (6 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 26 × 35 cm (10 1/4 × 13 3/4 in.)
Overall dimensions of bound volume: 42.5 × 34.5 × 5.5 cm (16 3/4 × 13 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by anonymously and the M. and M. Karolik Fund
Accession Number1973.732.3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsAlbums
Prints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 123, II, 1; Delteil 0122
DescriptionRed/brown ink, plate-tone, no bevel
Posthumous trial proof, with numbers, before letters of title and before borderline (H. II, 1).

Mounted in an album of 80 posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862, for the Academia de San Fernando, probably in the workshop of Laurenciano Potenciano.
Album: 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album 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".
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove. Each album sheet: 32.5 x 41.2 cm.
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 letterpress:
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 No watermark
InscriptionsEngraved u.l. 3; l.l.: 48 (original no. scratched out with burin); in graphite, u.r. in pm, 3; below image, outside pm., Lo mismo
Various later cataloguing inscriptions in graphite on mount; some ascribed to C. Dodgson.
ProvenanceCharles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi (or Christie's), April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased through R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).