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Que viene el Coco. (The bogeyman is coming); Caprichos 3
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799
Medium/Technique
Etching and burnished aquatint, completed plate, on laid paper; first edition
Dimensions
Platemark: 21.9 x 15.4 cm (8 5/8 x 6 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.5 x 20.0 cm (11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 30.5 x 20.0 cm (11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession Number14.1758
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 038, III; Delteil 040; Gassier & Wilson 455
DescriptionCompleted plate, with correction of "biene" to "viene", before bevel, first edition, published 1799 (H. III, 1).
(With scratch on girl's left elbow.)
(With scratch on girl's left elbow.)
Marks
Verso: stamp in brown ink of MFA, Boston (Lugt 282) with ledger number in graphite
InscriptionsEngraved in plate, u.r.: P. 3; b.c. Que viene el Coco
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)