De que mal morira? - Goya Capricho 40 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 40 "De que mal morira?" (Of what ill will he die?), from the fifth edition of Los Caprichos printed between 1881 and 1886 by the Calcografía Nacional in an edition of 210 copies. Heavy unwatermarked paper, a well-marked plate mark and a clean impression in sepia ink.
Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 40 "De que mal morira?" (Of what ill will he die?), from the fifth edition of Los Caprichos printed between 1881 and 1886 by the Calcografía Nacional in an edition of 210 copies. Heavy unwatermarked paper, a well-marked plate mark and a clean impression in sepia ink.
A donkey in frock coat and ruff takes the pulse of a dying man while a cloaked figure waits in the background. It is one of the donkey Caprichos with which Goya satirized the physicians of his day: the question in the caption gives the patient up for dead and leaves open whether the illness or the remedy will kill him.
Medium: Etching, aquatint and drypoint.
Artist / after: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Date: 1881-1886 (fifth edition; copper engraved in 1797-1799).
Source: Los Caprichos, fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; edition of 210 copies.
Dimensions: Plate mark 5.9 x 8.5 in (15 x 21.5 cm); sheet 10.2 x 14.4 in (26 x 36.5 cm).
Condition: Good impression, of fine and very legible line. Foxing scattered through the margins, denser in the right and lower ones, as it appears in the photograph. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 40 "De que mal morira?" (Of what ill will he die?), from the fifth edition of Los Caprichos printed between 1881 and 1886 by the Calcografía Nacional in an edition of 210 copies. Heavy unwatermarked paper, a well-marked plate mark and a clean impression in sepia ink.