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Nadie se conoce. (Nobody knows anybody, including himself); Caprichos 6

Nadie se conoce. (Nobody knows anybody, including himself); Caprichos 6

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799

Medium/Technique Etching and burnished aquatint, on laid paper; first edition

Dimensions Platemark: 21.9 x 15.3 cm (8 5/8 x 6 in.)
Sheet: 30.4 x 20 cm (11 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard

Accession Number14.1760

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 041, III, 1; Delteil 043; Gassier & Wilson 461

DescriptionGW: 0461. Completed plate, before bevel, first edition, published 1799 (H. III, 1)

Marks Verso: stamp in brown ink of MFA, Boston (Lugt 282) with ledger number in graphite

InscriptionsEngraved in plate, u.r.: P. 6, b.c.: Nadie se conoce

ProvenanceBy 1913, Francis Bullard (b. 1862 – d. 1913), Boston; 1913, by inheritance to his sister, Katherine Eliot Bullard (b. 1866 – d. 1920), Boston; 1914, gift of Katherine Eliot Bullard to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 23, 2018)