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Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer. (Sad forebodings of what is to happen); from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 1, mounted in a bound album

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1813-15; this set printed about 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/TechniqueEtching and burnished aquatint; posthumous trial proof, on cream wove paper, mounted in a bound album
DimensionsPlatemark: 17.8 × 22 cm (7 × 8 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.1 × 35.2 cm (10 1/4 × 13 7/8 in.)
Overall dimensions of bound volume: 42.5 × 34.5 × 5.5 cm (16 3/4 × 13 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Maurice Young and the Samuel Putnam Avery Fund
Accession number1973.732.1
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn graphite u.r. corner: 1: below image, within pm: Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer.
Provenance
Charles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi (or Christie's), April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased through R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).
Soldiers Frightened by a Phantom, from a once bound set of  "Disparates" [also known as Proverbios], plate 2
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1816-19; printed about 1848- 54
Men In Sacks (Disparates 8)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1815–17, Printed posthumously about 1848–54
Title page
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815–19; printed about 1848-1854
Disparate Ridiculo (Ridiculous Folly); from a set of "Disparates" series [published as the  Proverbios] , plate 3
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815–19; printed about 1848
Disparate Claro (Evident Folly); from the "Disparates" series, published as Los Proverbios, plate 15
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1816-19; printed about 1848-1854