Cruel lastima! - Goya Etching - Disasters of War, First Edition 1863
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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, number 48 of Los Desastres de la Guerra, in its first edition of 1863. A man holds out his hand over a group of bodies heaped on the ground beside a wall in shadow; at his side a seated figure looks on. Lettered below with the title «Cruel lástima!».
Original etching by Francisco de Goya, number 48 of Los Desastres de la Guerra, in its first edition of 1863. A man holds out his hand over a group of bodies heaped on the ground beside a wall in shadow; at his side a seated figure looks on. Lettered below with the title «Cruel lástima!».
Goya etched the coppers between 1810 and 1815, but the series was not published until 1863, thirty-five years after his death, by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. That first edition was printed in two sessions; from the crispness the lettering retains, this impression probably belongs to the first, as Thomas Harris describes in his catalog.
Medium: Etching.
Artist / after: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Date: 1863 (first edition); copper etched between 1810 and 1815.
Source: Los Desastres de la Guerra, first edition, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1863.
Dimensions: Plate mark 6.1 x 8.1 in (15.5 x 20.5 cm); sheet 9.7 x 13.6 in (24.7 x 34.5 cm).
Condition: Good. Sheet with wide margins and a well-marked plate mark; traces of the number 47 remain at the lower left.
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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, number 48 of Los Desastres de la Guerra, in its first edition of 1863. A man holds out his hand over a group of bodies heaped on the ground beside a wall in shadow; at his side a seated figure looks on. Lettered below with the title «Cruel lástima!».