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No se convienen. (They do not agree); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 17

Drawn and etched about 1810–14; published 1863

Medium/Technique Etching, aquatint and/or sulfur tint (?), lavis, drypoint, and burin; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 14.8 x 21.8 cm (5 13/16 x 8 9/16 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 NumberM21914.17
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 137, III, 1; Delteil 0136
DescriptionWarm black ink, plate-tone.
In First Edition, as 77th in set
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
Inscriptionsb.c. to left of horse's leg, etched, Goya, b.c. to rt. of horse's leg, in burin, Goya; u.l., engraved, 17; l.l. engraved, 17; posthumously engraved, l.c., No se convienen.
ProvenancePurchased 6/1/1911