About This Artwork

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish, 1746-1828

For heaven's sake: and it was her mother, plate 16 from Los Caprichos, 1797/99

Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
175 x 125 mm (image); 200 x 150 mm (plate); 301 x 205 mm (sheet)
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1948.110.16

Harris 51 II/III, 2; Delteil 53; Gassier and Wilson II. 483; Pérez Sánchez & Gállego 16