Five Plates from: Los Desastres de la Guerra

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828) Five Plates from: Los Desastres de la Guerra five etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, circa 1810-20, including: Bien te se está., Plate 6 (26), on wove paper, without watermark; Enterrar y Callar, Plate 18 (16), on wove paper, without watermark; Así Sucedió., Plate 47 (33), on wove paper, without watermark; Cruel Lástima!, Plate 48 (47), on wove paper, watermark Palmette; all good impression from the First Edition, published by by the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1863; and Fiero Monstruo!, Plate 81, on Guarro wove paper, probably a posthumous trial proof, after the rediscovery of the plate and before the edition of 1957-58, printed by the Calcografía in Madrid, with their blindstamp, before the two editions of 1958-59 Plates 171 x 217 mm. (and similar) Sheets 318 x 442 mm. (and smaller) (5)