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Image Not Available for No se puede saber por qué. (There is no way of telling why); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 35.

No se puede saber por qué. (There is no way of telling why); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 35.

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/TechniqueEtching, sulfur tint (?), burnished lavis, drypoint, and burin; posthumous trial proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 15.4 x 25.6 cm (6 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 25.7 x 35 cm (10 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds by exchange from the bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number1973.732.35
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEngraved, u.l., 35; u.r. within pm. in graphite: 35; l.l., engraved, 2(masked or not inked); b.c. inside pm. in graphite: no se puede saber por que.
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).
Disparate de Tontos (Fool's Folly) from the Disparates series
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched, 1816-19, printed about 1877
Banderillas de fuego. (Banderillas with firecrackers); from the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting), plate 31
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815; printed 19th century