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Grande hazaña! Con muertos! (An heroic feat! With dead men!) / Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)

• Object type

  • print
  • book

• Museum number

  1975,1025.421.41

• Title (object)

  • Grande hazaña! Con muertos! (An heroic feat! With dead men!)

  Title (series)

  • Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)

• Description

  Plate 39: three corpses bound to tree stump, all castrated; one with arms amputated and decapitated, the head impaled on a branch; from a bound album of working proofs, presented by the artist to Ceán Bermúdez. c.1810-1813 Etching, lavis and drypoint

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Francisco de Goya

• School/style

  • Spanish

• Date

  • 1810-1813 (c.)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • open-bite
  • etching
  • drypoint

• Dimensions

  • Height: 155 millimetres
  • Width: 204 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Signed and numbered on plate. Titled by the artist in pencil within platemark, below image.

• Bibliography

  • Blas & Matilla 2000
  • Delteil 158
  • Harris 1964 159.I.3

• Location

  Not on display (Goya cupboard)

• Subjects

  • punishment
  • allegory/personification
  • death

• Associated events

  • Associated Event: Peninsular War
    1808-1814

• Acquisition name

  • Donated by: HM Treasury
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Tomás Harris
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Valentín Carderera
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Juan Augustín Ceán Bermúdez

• Acquisition date

  1975

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1975,1025.421.41

• Joined objects

  • print; book (1975,1025.421.3)
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