Tragala perro - Goya Capricho 58 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 58 "Tragala perro" (Swallow it, dog), 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. 58 "Tragala perro" (Swallow it, dog), 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 friar administers an enormous syringe to a terrified man while a ring of grotesque faces and a cloaked figure applaud the scene. The phrase in the caption sums up the forcible imposition of belief: he who does not swallow out of conviction swallows by force.
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 8.3 in (15 x 21 cm); sheet 10.2 x 14.4 in (26 x 36.5 cm).
Condition: Good impression, of finely modulated aquatint. Marked foxing in the left margin and at the corners, as it appears in the photograph. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 58 "Tragala perro" (Swallow it, dog), 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.