FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Five Plates from: Los Desastres de la Guerra
five etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, circa 1810-20, including:
Bien te se está., Plate 6 (26), on wove paper, without watermark;
Enterrar y Callar, Plate 18 (16), on wove paper, without watermark;
Así Sucedió., Plate 47 (33), on wove paper, without watermark;
Cruel Lástima!, Plate 48 (47), on wove paper, watermark Palmette; all good impression from the First Edition, published by by the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1863;
andFiero Monstruo!, Plate 81, on Guarro wove paper, probably a posthumous trial proof, after the rediscovery of the plate and before the edition of 1957-58, printed by the Calcografía in Madrid, with their blindstamp, before the two editions of 1958-59

Plates 171 x 217 mm. (and similar)
Sheets 318 x 442 mm. (and smaller)

Unidentified, stamped letter S recto (not in Lugt). (H. 126)
Unidentifed, stamped initials GCM verso (not in Lugt). (H. 167)

Delteil 125, 137, 166, 167 & 200; Harris 126, 138, 167, 168 & 201

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Fiero Monstruo!, the last plate in this lot, was never published with the eighty plates of the Desatres de la Guerra. It first re-surfaced in Paris in the hands of the printer Lefort, who sold it to the Calcografia in 1870. A few trial proofs were printed on different types of laid paper before it was mislaid and only rediscovered in 1957. The Calcografia then published the plate in two editions on laid Arches paper between 1958 and 59. The present impression appears to be a trial proof before these editions on different paper.
Rather than a depiction of the cruelties Goya saw and heard about during the Napoleonic war in Spain, or a satire of the absurdities and miseries of the post-war period, this plate is a nightmarish vision of the destruction of human life: a giant, dog-like creature regurgitating human bodies.