Ya es hora - Goya Capricho 80 - Original Etching, 5th Edition 1881-1886
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Ya es hora - Goya Capricho 80 - Original Etching, 5th Edition 1881-1886

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «Ya es hora» (It is time), number 80 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. The subject that closes the series: a group of friars stretching themselves at daybreak, worked out in a very free line.

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «Ya es hora» (It is time), number 80 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. The subject that closes the series: a group of friars stretching themselves at daybreak, worked out in a very free line.

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: Crisp impression and wide, clean margins, with light scattered foxing specks.

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