No grites, tonta - Goya Capricho 74 - Original Etching, 5th Ed. 1881-86
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No grites, tonta - Goya Capricho 74 - Original Etching, 5th Ed. 1881-86

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «No grites, tonta» (Don't scream, silly), number 74 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. A goblin startles a young woman while another hooded figure draws aside; a composition in pure line, without aquatint.

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «No grites, tonta» (Don't scream, silly), number 74 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. A goblin startles a young woman while another hooded figure draws aside; a composition in pure line, without aquatint.

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 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 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 and wide margins. Foxing in the margins, some of it of a certain size in the right and lower ones.

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