Mucho hay que chupar - Goya Capricho 45 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Mucho hay que chupar - Goya Capricho 45 - Original Etching, 1881-1886

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, Capricho no. 45, «Mucho hay que chupar» (There is plenty to suck), from the fifth edition printed at the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. A crisp impression, with the aquatint ground even and the engraved caption complete.

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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, Capricho no. 45, «Mucho hay que chupar» (There is plenty to suck), from the fifth edition printed at the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. A crisp impression, with the aquatint ground even and 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 45, 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 scattered through the margins, above all the upper and the right ones, visible in the photograph. The image within the plate mark is clean and the margins are complete.

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