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Qué alborato es este? (What is this hubbub?); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 65 (one of the "caprichos enfáticos").
Qué alborato es este? (What is this hubbub?); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 65 (one of the "caprichos enfáticos").

Qué alborato es este? (What is this hubbub?); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 65 (one of the "caprichos enfáticos").

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1814–15; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/TechniqueEtching, burnished aquatint/lavis (sulfur tint?), burin, and burnisher; posthumous trial proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 18 x 22.1 cm (7 1/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.1 x 35.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pirie and by exchange from a gift of the Class in History of Engraving
Accession number1973.732.65
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ClassificationsPrints
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