Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Cuál la descañonan (How They Pluck Her!). Plate 21 from Los Caprichos etching series, 10th edition.

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Cuál la descañonan (How They Pluck Her!). Plate 21 from Los Caprichos etching series, 10th … Read more Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Cuál la descañonan (How They Pluck Her!). Plate 21 from Los Caprichos etching series, 10th edition.
The paper is watermarked with the stamp of the Calcografía Nacional.

According to Thomas Harris, this tenth edition, published in 1918, was a limited run of 170 copies of the highest quality. After the original plates were cleaned and steel-faced, this edition became—due to its technical characteristics—the most highly regarded after the splendid fourth edition. Printed on laid paper with a watermark featuring a portrait of Goya.

Cuál la descañonan (Plate 21) continues the narrative of the two previous prints, in which men are metaphorically "plucked" by women. In this scene, however, the prostitutes themselves are being plucked—this time by figures of justice, such as mayors and bailiffs. The bailiffs and lawyers are depicted with dog-like faces, emphasizing their predatory and dehumanized nature.

Plate size: 14 x 21.5 cm
Paper size: 26 x 35.7 cm

Condition: Excellent

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) is a series of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by Spanish artist Francisco Goya between 1797 and 1798, and first published as an album in 1799. The series was an artistic experiment and a medium for Goya’s scathing critique of the universal follies, vices, and absurdities of Spanish society.

Thirteen official editions are known: the first in 1799, five in the 19th century, and seven in the 20th century—the final one published in 1970 by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. See less