El si pronuncian y la mano alargan - Goya Capricho 2 - Etching 1881-86
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 2 "El si pronuncian y la mano alargan al primero que llega" (They say yes and give their hand to the first comer), 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. 2 "El si pronuncian y la mano alargan al primero que llega" (They say yes and give their hand to the first comer), 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 young woman in a mask advances on the arm of her suitor before a train of grotesque faces and a crowd pressing in the background. Goya opens the series with a criticism of marriages of convenience, in which the bride accepts the first man who comes along without knowing him and without wanting 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: Dense impression, with the etched ground heavily worked. Foxing scattered through the margins, above all the right one. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 2 "El si pronuncian y la mano alargan al primero que llega" (They say yes and give their hand to the first comer), 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.