Alla va eso - Goya Capricho 66 - Original Etching, 5th Edition 1881-1886
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Alla va eso - Goya Capricho 66 - Original Etching, 5th Edition 1881-1886

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «Allá vá eso» (There it goes), number 66 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. A witch and her pupil fly on a winged goat, in a composition worked out almost entirely in line, with hardly any ground.

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «Allá vá eso» (There it goes), number 66 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. A witch and her pupil fly on a winged goat, in a composition worked out almost entirely in line, with hardly any ground.

Los Caprichos (1799) is Goya's first great satirical series: eighty subjects on superstition, social hypocrisy and the abuses of the clergy and of the courts. Goya ceded the coppers to the Crown in 1803, and they have been kept ever since at the Calcografía Nacional, which reissued them several times through the 19th century; this is the fifth printing.

Medium: Etching, with touches of drypoint, on heavy unwatermarked wove paper.
Artist / after: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Engraver: Goya himself.
Date: Fifth edition, 1881-1886 (copper engraved in 1799).
Source: Los Caprichos, fifth edition of the Calcografía Nacional; album leaf, bound along the upper margin and with Goya's self-portrait on the cover.
Dimensions: Plate mark 6.1 x 8.1 in (15.5 x 20.5 cm); sheet 10.2 x 14.4 in (26 x 36.5 cm).
Condition: According to the original record, with foxing natural to the paper. The impression is crisp and firm in line.

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