Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 80 etching and aquatints with drypoint, engraving, and/or burnishing on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book (volume closed): 31.5 × 20.5 × 2.5 cm (12 3/8 × 8 1/16 × 1 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.4711
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Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 1964, no. 36, State -115 III (1st ed.)
Associated Artworks
See all 80 artworks
Francesco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor (Francesco Goya y Lucientes, Painter)
Francisco Goya
1799
Quien mas rendido? (Which of Them Is the More Overcome?)
Francisco Goya
1799
Que pico de oro! (What a Golden Beak!)
Francisco Goya
1799
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 51.
2001
Goya: Images of Women, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, no. 83.
2018
Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.
Bibliography
1964
Harris, Tomás. Goya: engravings and lithographs. 2 vols. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964.
1992
Tomlinson, Janis A. Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992 (illustrated plates 14, 29, 42, 43, 65, 77 on pp. 8, 22, 23, 7, 9, 23 respectively).
1994
Stafford, Barbara Maria. Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1994, (1943.3.4711.f, .jj, .zzz only) pl. 6, 36, 78.
1997
Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 105, fig. 28.
2000
Baird, Forrest E., ed. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. Upper Saddle River, 2000: np.
2001
Goya: Images of Women. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 83.
Inscriptions
in gold-tooled letters on red leather label on spine of brown leather binding: CAPRICH / DE / GOYA; on verso of front endpaper in graphite in later hand at upper left: AS / B-9354 and at upper center: HH1019 / Very rare all 1st States. / complete set 80 plates / Les Caprices
Markings
National Gallery of Art stampe on verso of front endpaper
Watermarks
none