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Qué alborato es este? (What is this hubbub?); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 65 (one of the "caprichos enfáticos")

Drawn and etched about 1814–15; published 1863

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aqatint/lavis (sulfur tint?), burin, and burnisher; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 17.5 x 22 cm (6 7/8 x 8 11/16 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 NumberM21914.65
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 185, III, 1; Delteil 0184
DescriptionFrom posthumous first edition (1863), with title 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
ProvenancePurchased 6/1/1911