Si sabrá más el discípulo? - Goya Capricho 37 - Etching, 1881-1886
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Si sabrá más el discípulo? - Goya Capricho 37 - Etching, 1881-1886

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, Capricho no. 37, «¿Si sabrá más el discípulo?» (Might not the pupil know more?), from the fifth edition printed at the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. A subject of fine line and grainy aquatint, with the engraved caption complete.

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, Capricho no. 37, «¿Si sabrá más el discípulo?» (Might not the pupil know more?), from the fifth edition printed at the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. A subject of fine line and grainy aquatint, with the engraved caption complete.

The fifth edition of Los Caprichos was printed at the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886, on heavy paper without watermark, the impressions bound along their upper margin and with Goya's self-portrait on the cover. These are the features Tomás Harris describes in his catalog of the artist's engraved work.

Medium: Etching and burnished aquatint on heavy unwatermarked paper.
Artist / after: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Date: 1881-1886 (fifth edition; the series was first published in 1799).
Source: Los Caprichos, number 37, Calcografía Nacional, Madrid.
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: Good general condition. Foxing in the margins, denser in the right and the lower ones, visible in the photograph. The image within the plate mark is clean and the margins are complete.

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