Correcion; (Correction); plate 46 from Los Caprichos

 

Francisco Goya

  1746 - 1828 (biography)

1797 -98; printed later (1881 - 1900) 

etching and burnished aquatint 

8 1/2 x 5 3/4" platemark; 7-5/8 x 5-1/8" image 

not signed, as usual 

around 210 (fifth edition) or 230 (sixth edition). 

title, printed in lower margin within platemark; number "46" in upper right corner, outside the image. 

Harris 81; D.83; Lefort & Hofman 46. 

smooth antique-white wove 

fifth or sixth edition of twelve 

Real Academia, Madrid 

18716 

SOLD

Plate 46 of the Caprichos. The red crayon drawing for "Correccion" is in the Prado and the plate is in the Calcografia in Madrid where eleven of the 12 editions was printed. This impression is probably from the 5th or 6th edition after the plate was beveled and most of the burnishiing has been lost, though the etched lines are still printed well. The false biting in the lower margin is gone, indicating at least a 5th edition. The margins of the paper have been trimmed to 1-1/4 - 1-3/4" outside the plate mark. Goya commented on this work: "Without correction and censure one cannot get on in any faculty and that of withcraft needs uncomon talent, application, maturity, submission and docility to the advice of the great Witch who directs the seminary of Barahona"