El Vergonzoso - Goya Capricho 54 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 54 "El Vergonzoso" (The shamefaced one), 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. 54 "El Vergonzoso" (The shamefaced one), 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 figure with a monstrous face — a face the traditional reading identifies with a phallus — eats from a bowl before the other diners. Goya ridicules the man who ought to be ashamed and is not; the manuscript commentaries of the period advised him mockingly to hide such a face.
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: Dense impression, with strong-grained aquatint and good contrast. Light foxing in the left and upper margins. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 54 "El Vergonzoso" (The shamefaced one), 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.