Nov 04, 2004 - Sale 2020

Sale 2020 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 4,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PROOF ON TISSUE THIN JAPAN PAPER FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA
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Etching, aquatint and drypoint on tissue thin Japan paper, circa 1824. 245x350 mm; 95/8x133/4 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 3), before letters. A brilliant early, proof impression, before the published edition for L'Art, with the drypoint scratches in the elephant and the figures printing clearly and, in the figure at the far left, printing with burr, and with the outline of the second elephant in the left background printing clearly. Delteil 222; Harris 268.