El de la rollona - Goya Capricho 4 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 4 "El de la rollona" (Nanny's boy), 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. 4 "El de la rollona" (Nanny's boy), 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 grown man dressed as a child, in leading strings, with bib, charms and rattle, sucks his finger beside his nurse. «Estar en casa de la rollona» was said of the man still pampered and indulged when already grown: Goya censures the soft upbringing that prolongs infancy and ruins the adult.
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: Very dark, velvety impression, with the aquatint well preserved. Foxing in the right and lower margins, visible in the photograph. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 4 "El de la rollona" (Nanny's boy), 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.