Goya’s Prints

Los caprichos

Plate 43: The sleep of reason produces monsters, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin, plate: 21.2 x 15.1 cm.   The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

disasters of war series

Plate 15:  “And there’s nothing to be done (Y no hai remedio),” 1810, etching, drypoint, burin and burnisher, 14 x 16.7 cm.   The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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