Original etching by Francisco de Goya, no. 66 of The Disasters of War, "Extrana devocion!" (Strange devotion!). A donkey carries on its back the reliquary with a mummy while a group of figures prostrates itself as it passes. Third printing. Framed with an antique gilt frame.
Original etching by Francisco de Goya, no. 66 of The Disasters of War, "Extrana devocion!" (Strange devotion!). A donkey carries on its back the reliquary with a mummy while a group of figures prostrates itself as it passes. Third printing. Framed with an antique gilt frame.
Goya etched The Disasters of War between 1810 and 1815, but the series remained unpublished until 1863, when the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando issued the first edition of the eighty subjects. The copperplates are kept at the Calcografia Nacional, which made the later printings.
Medium: Etching, with lavis and burnisher.
Artist / after: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Source: The Disasters of War series, no. 66; third printing.
Condition: Good; framed with an antique frame and glass. The reflections seen in the photograph come from the glass.