Original etching, dry point and aquatint printed in sepia ink on laid paper with wide margins. Plate 70 from the first edition of "Los Caprichos." A very good lifetime impression with crisp plate edges. Framed with museum quality conservation materials.

Platemark: 8 1/8" x 6 1/2"; Sheet size: 11 3/4" x 7 15/16"; Framed: 19 1/2" x 17".
Catalogue reference: Delteil 107; Harris 105

"Los Caprichos" is a series of eighty etchings and aquatints first published in 1799. The series was Goya's largest and most impressive graphic work to date. The inspiration for the grotesque figures of "Los Caprichos" was a result of Goya's reading French Revolutionary philosophers. Rousseau claimed that "imagination divorced from reason produces monsters," which is exactly how Goya felt about the behavior of the Spanish people in his time. In "Los Caprichos" Goya represents members of Spanish society as monstrous, ridiculous and strange caricatures devoid of reason.