No se puede saber por qué (One can't tell why), plate 35 from; Los Desastres de la Guerra (D. 154; H. 155)
Details
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)
No se puede saber por qué (One can't tell why), plate 35 from; Los Desastres de la Guerra (D. 154; H. 155)
etching with burnished lavis, drypoint and engraving, circa 1812, on wove paper with part of a Palmette (Shell?) watermark, a fine impression from Harris's edition 1b, with the correction from que to qué, one small wormhole (?) to the center right of the image, several binding holes at the left sheet edge, in very good condition
P. 5 7/8 x 8 1/16 in. (150 x 205 mm.), S. 9 9/16 x 12 7/8 in. (237 x 328 mm.)
No se puede saber por qué (One can't tell why), plate 35 from; Los Desastres de la Guerra (D. 154; H. 155)
etching with burnished lavis, drypoint and engraving, circa 1812, on wove paper with part of a Palmette (Shell?) watermark, a fine impression from Harris's edition 1b, with the correction from que to qué, one small wormhole (?) to the center right of the image, several binding holes at the left sheet edge, in very good condition
P. 5 7/8 x 8 1/16 in. (150 x 205 mm.), S. 9 9/16 x 12 7/8 in. (237 x 328 mm.)
Provenance
August Laube, Zurich, April 1982.