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No se puede mirar. (One can't look); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 26.

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/TechniqueEtching, drypoint, burin, burnished aquatint, burnished lavis; posthumous trial proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 14.5 x 21 cm (5 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.2 x 35.5 cm (10 5/16 x 14 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Cornelia Lombard and by exchange from a gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession number1973.732.26
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEtched l.l. Goya; engraved, l.l., 27; u.l. engraved: 26(6 in rev.); u.r. within pm in graphite: 26; b.c. outside pm. in graphite: no se puede mirar.
ProvenanceCharles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi, April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased from R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).
Giant; from the "Disparates" series, plate 4
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1816-19; printed about 1848 - 54
Disparate Pobre (Poor Folly); from the "Disparates" series, published as Los Proverbios, plate 11
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815–17; printed about 1848-1854
Woman Carried off by a Horse; from the "Disparates" series, plate 10
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815–17; printed about 1863–64