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Ni por esas. (Neither do these); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 11.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–14

Medium/Technique Etching, aquatint and lavis (or sulfur tint), burin, and drypoint; working proof
Dimensions Platemark: 16.2 x 21.3 cm (6 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 x 31.5 cm (8 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line 1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1631
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 131, I, 3; Delteil 0130; Gassier & Wilson 1007
DescriptionWarm black ink. No bevel.
Working proof, before final number and letters, and before lavis (or sulphur tint) burnished from plate edges (H. I, 3).
Marks Verso: MFA stamp in brown ink (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsEtched l.l.: goya; engraved l.l., 18; u.r. outside pm., in graphite: 11.
Provenance1863, sold by Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818–d. 1878), Keir House, Scotland; 1878, by inheritance to his son, Brigadier General Archibald Stirling (b. 1867–d. 1931), Keir House; 1931, by inheritance to his son, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph Stirling (b. 1911–d. 1983), Keir House; September 13, 1951, sold by William Joseph Stirling, through Colnaghi & Co. and Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)