Hasta la muerte - Goya Capricho 55 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Hasta la muerte - Goya Capricho 55 - Original Etching, 1881-1886

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, Capricho no. 55, «Hasta la muerte» (Until death), from the fifth edition printed at the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. An impression of finely graded aquatint, with the engraved caption complete.

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, Capricho no. 55, «Hasta la muerte» (Until death), from the fifth edition printed at the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. An impression of finely graded 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 55, 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: Acceptable. Foxing in the margins; one spot, in the upper right margin, just touches the edge of the plate mark. All of it visible in the photograph.

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