1870
by Goya, Francisco de
1870. good. Etching on paper, 1st published in 1799, this issue ca. 1875 (later ones are dogfood). Plate 66 from Los Caprichos, the sheet 8” X 10” the image 4 7/8” X 7 3/8” (the full margins are not pictured). Titled at the base, plate number at the upper right. Good. Unframed. A supernatural allegory of a witch and her cat flying over the landscape on a crippled devil who looks like a surgically humanized warthog from the island of Dr. Moreau. The theme is conflict, much smaller than, but not unlike that between matter and anti–matter, or between education and disaster. Ref: Delteil 103. Harris 1964 101.III? (Inventory #: 463)
