Lo que puede un Sastre! - Goya Capricho 52 - Original Etching, 1881-86
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 52 "Lo que puede un Sastre!" (What a tailor can do!), 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. 52 "Lo que puede un Sastre!" (What a tailor can do!), 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 woman kneels before what she takes for an apparition and which is nothing but a tree trunk covered with a habit, while a group of the devout looks on. Goya attacks superstition and credulity before the religious habit: it is the tailor, and not sanctity, who makes the object of faith.
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: Impression of fine and very free line, with wide areas of pure etching. Foxing scattered through the margins, above all the left and lower ones. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 52 "Lo que puede un Sastre!" (What a tailor can do!), 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.