Lo que puede un sastre, plate 52 from: Los Caprichos

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828) Lo que puede un sastre, plate 52 from: Los Caprichos etching with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving 1797-98 on laid paper, without watermark Harris' state II.1 (of three) a very fine, early trial proof, with letters but before the exclamation mark in the title a very rare trial proof before the edition published by the artist in 1799 (Harris recorded only three such proofs) printing sharply, with great contrasts and inky relief some aquatint left unburnished on and around the left hand of the phantom trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a blank border outside the image in good condition Sheet 21,1 x 13,6 cm. (8 3⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 in.)