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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
There is plenty to suck (Mucho hay que chupar)
Plate 45 from: Los Caprichos
etching with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, on laid paper, a fine impression from the First Edition, published by the artist, Madrid, 1799, with the scratch on the face of the figure in the background, the highlights brilliant white and crisply defined, framed
Plate: 8 x 578 in. (203 x 149 mm.)
Sheet: 1134 x 8 in. (298 x 203 mm.)
Literature
Delteil 82; Harris 80
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Prado manuscript: ‘Those who become eighty suck young children; those who are less than eighteen years old, suck grown-ups. It seems that man is born and lives in order to be sucked.’

The Madrid Biblioteca Nacional text could apply to this but also to the preceding work: ‘Pimps and procuresses disgrace hundreds of children, supplying drugs for abortion when required by secrecy’. The figure at the lower left of the print clearly being a monk, the attack here very well could again be the clergy.

Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 116.

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