FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA El Sueño de la Razon Produce Montruos.
Aquatint and etching, circa 1799. 215x150 mm; 8 1/2x6 inches, wide margins. Second edition, before the beveling of the plate, with the title on the desk distinct and with the foul-biting in the upper right margin. From Los Caprichos. A superb, dark, richly-inked impression.
Goya's commentary on this subject reads, "Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of arts and the source of their wonders." Delteil 80; Harris 78.
