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Que valor! (What courage!); from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 7, mounted in a bound album

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1811-12; this set printed 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/TechniqueEtching, burnisher, drypoint, and burin; posthumous trial proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 15.8 x 20.9 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 25.8 x 35.5 cm (10 3/16 x 14 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Russell W. Baker and by exchange from the bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession number1973.732.7
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEngraved u.l. 7; L.l.: 41 (poorly printed); in graphite, u.r. inside pm: 7; below image, outside pm.: Que valor!
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 through R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).