Self-Portrait, plate 1 from: Los Caprichos

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828) Self-Portrait, plate 1 from: Los Caprichos etching with aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1799, on laid paper, without watermark, a fine impression from the First Edition, printed for the artist in 1799, with the corrections in the title, just beginning to show a little of the usual wear in the hair but hardly any on the hat, with wide margins, probably the full sheet as originally bound, some foxing along the right sheet edge, some very pale foxing in the upper and right margins, otherwise in very good condition Plate 104 x 95 mm., Sheet 108 x 97 mm.