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Lo que puede un Sastre! (What a tailor can do!); Plate 52 bound into "Los Caprichos"
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint,drypoint, and burin; pre-publication impression
Dimensions
Platemark: 21.8 x 15.1 cm (8 9/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.0 x 20.0 cm (11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 30.0 x 20.0 cm (11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB4165.52
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 087, II; Delteil 089
DescriptionCompleted plate with additional etching, with letters, numbers, before bevel, pre-publication impression.
From a bound pre-publication set of so-called trial proofs (H. II);
bound in brown sprinkled (mottled) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine in gold on black: CAPRICH / DE/ GOYA; 31.0 x 21.3; in red slipcase, 31.8 x 22.8 cm
From a bound pre-publication set of so-called trial proofs (H. II);
bound in brown sprinkled (mottled) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine in gold on black: CAPRICH / DE/ GOYA; 31.0 x 21.3; in red slipcase, 31.8 x 22.8 cm
ProvenanceWilliam P. Babcock (1826-1899, born in Boston, lived in Paris, Lugt 207); acquired by bequest to the MFA, 12 June 1900.