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- Description
- 80 prints on moderately thick cream wove paper : etching, aquatint, drypoint, lavis, engraving, burnishing; 15 x 19.3 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Complete first edition set of Los desastres de la guerra. Prints depict the horrors of the Peninsular War and the subsequent famine in Spain. Subjects include bayonets, canons, combat, death and the dead, dismemberment, famine victims, firing squads, hanging, mass burials, rape, rifles, soldiers, starvation, torture, war and wolves. Also includes the Caprichos enfáticos, satires whose subjects include bats, cats, the clergy, dogs, donkeys, foxes, horses, monks, owls and vultures.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Title pages – Spanish – 19th century.
- Aquatints – Spanish – 19th century.
- Etchings – Spanish – 19th century.
- Note
- 1863 is the date of publication of the first edition. The plates were executed 1810-1820.
- The paper is described according to the guidelines in The Print Council of America's paper sample book.
- Printed in sepia ink. The ink, along with the paper, corresponds to the description of the first edition according to Tomás Harris, Goya: engravings and lithographs.
- Some prints bear portions of the watermark of José Garcia Oseñalde, which according to Tomás Harris, Goya: Engravings and Lithographs, appears in the first edition.
- None of the prints bear title corrections, which according to Tomás Harris, Goya: Engravings and Lithographs, appendix II, defines these prints as an early first edition set.
- Prints are unbound but accompanied by dated title page and biographical introduction, as noted by Tomás Harris, Goya: Engravings and Lithographs.
- Access (note)
- Cite As (note)
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Holdings checked in departmental copy of Loys Delteil, Le Peintre-graveur illustré, v. XIV and v. XV.
- Provenance (note)
- Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.
- Contents
- D120. Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer (4th state) -- D121. Con razon ó sin ella (4th state) -- D122. Lo mismo (5th state) -- D123. Las mugeres dan valor (4th state) -- D124. Y son fieras (4th state) -- D125. Bien te se está (4th state) -- D126. Que valor! (5th state) -- D127. Siempre sucede (3rd state) -- D128. No quiren (6th state) -- D129. Tampoco (4th state) -- D130. Ni por esas (4th state) -- D131. Para eso habeis nacido (5th state) -- D132. Amarga presencia (5th state) -- D133. Duro es el paso! (4th state) -- D134. Y no hai remedio (4th state) -- D135. Se aprovechan (4th state) -- D136. No se convienen (4th state) -- D137. Enterrar y callar (5th state) -- D138. Ya no hay tiempo (4th state) -- D139. Curarlos, y á otra (4th state) -- D140. Será lo mismo (4th state) -- D141. Tanto y mas (4th state) -- D142. Lo mismo en otras partes (4th state) -- D143. Aun podrán servir (4th state) -- D144. Tambien estos (5th state)
- D145. No se puede mirar (4th state) -- D146. Caridad (5th state) -- D147. Populacho (4th state) -- D148. Lo merecia (5th state) -- D149. Estragos de la guerra (4th state) -- D150. Fuerte cosa es! (5th state) -- D151. Por que? (5th state) -- D152. Que hai que hacer mas? (4th state) -- D153. Por una nabaja (6th state) -- D154. No se puede saber por que (4th state) -- D155. Tampoco (4th state) -- D156. Esto es peor (5th state) -- D157. Bárbaros! (6th state) -- D158. Grande hazaña con muertos. (4th state) -- D159. Algun portido saca (4th state) -- D160. Escapan entre las llamas (5th state) -- D161. Todo va revuelto (3rd state) -- D162. Tambien esto (4th state) -- D163. Yo lo vi (4th state) -- D164. Y esto tambien (4th state) -- D165. Esto es malo (4th state) -- D166. Asi sucedió (4th state) -- D167. Cruel lástima! (4th state) -- D168. Caridad de una muger (4th state) --D169. Madre infeliz! (4th state) -- D170. Gracias á la almorta (4th state) -- D171. No llegan á tiempo (4th state) -- D172. Espiró sin remedio (4th state) -- D173. Clamores en vano (4th state) -- D174. Lo peor es pedir (4th state) -- D175. Al cementerio (4th state) -- D176. Sanos y enfermos (5th state) -- D177. No hay que dar voces (4th state) -- D178. De qué sirve una taza? (4th state) -- D179. No hay quien los socorra (4th state) -- D180. Si son de otro linage (4th state) -- D181. Las camas de la muerte (4th state) -- D182. Muertos recogidos (5th state)
- D183. Carretadas al cementerio (4th state) -- D184. Qué alboroto es este? (4th state) -- D185. Extraña devocion! (4th state) -- D186. Esta no lo es menos (4th state) -- D187. Que locura! (4th state) -- D188. Nada ello dirá (5th state) -- D189. No saben el camino (4th state) -- D190. Contra el bien general (3rd state) -- D191. Las resultas (3rd state) -- D192. Gatesca pantomima (3rd state) -- D193. Esto es lo peor! (3rd state) -- D194. Farándula de charlatanes (4th state) -- D195. El buitre carnívoro (4th state) -- D196. Que se rompe la cuerda (4th state) -- D197. Se defiende bien (3rd state) -- D198. Murió la Verdad (3rd state) -- D199. Si resucitará? (3rd state)
- Call Number
- MEZAC
- OCLC
- NYPG98-F85
- Author
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.
- Title
Los desastres de la guerra. [graphic] / Goya.
- Imprint
1863.
- Restricted Access
Restricted access; Print Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Cite As:
S. P. Avery Collection.
- Indexes
Holdings checked in departmental copy of Loys Delteil, Le Peintre-graveur illustré, v. XIV and v. XV.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.
- Provenance
Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Collector
S.P. Avery Collection.
- Research Call Number
MEZAC