Hasta su Abuelo - SOLD

Hasta su Abuelo from Los Caprichos is an original artwork realized by the artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799.

Etching and aquatint on paper.

The etching is part of the fourth Edition of "Los Caprichos" published in 1878 by the Calcografia Nacional for the Real Academia of Madrid.

The Edition includes 80 original plates.

Plate N. 39. Numbered on the upper right corner.

Titled on the lower central margin "Hasta su Abuelo " (Even the Grandfather). 

This plate presents a dressed donkey watching us with a big open book on which different animal figures are drawn. The artist wished to mock certain scholars and academics of 18th-century Spain by comparing them to donkeys, highlighting their ignorance. The donkey is realized with different shades of grey and black.

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