Tu que no puedes - Goya Capricho 42 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 42 "Tu que no puedes" (You who cannot), 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. 42 "Tu que no puedes" (You who cannot), 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.
Two men of the people walk bent under the weight of two donkeys riding on their backs. The caption clips a proverb — «tú que no puedes, llévame a cuestas», you who cannot, carry me on your back — with which Goya denounces the burden of privileges and taxes that the idle classes made the common people bear.
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: Clean impression of great crispness. The sheet is in good condition, with light isolated rust specks in the left and right margins. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 42 "Tu que no puedes" (You who cannot), 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.