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No saben el camino. (They do not know the way); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 70 (one of the "caprichos enfáticos").

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1814–15; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/TechniqueEtching, drypoint, burin, and burnisher; posthumous trial proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 17.7 x 22 cm (6 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.8 x 35 cm (10 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Litho Associates, St. Laurent, Quebec and by exchange from the Lee M. Friedman Fund
Accession number1973.732.70
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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).
Que valor! (What courage!); from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 7, mounted in a bound album
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1811-12; this set printed 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863