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Mejor es holgar. (It is better to be lazy.)


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Mejor es holgar. (It is better to be lazy.)

1796-1797
18th century
215 x 150 mm (8.5 x 5.9 in.)

Francisco de Goya, Spanish, (1746–1828)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching, burnished aquatint, and burin on cream laid paper
Print impression quality: Excellent
Series: from Los Caprichos
Edition: First edition, 1799
Provenance / Collectors' Marks: P. de la Cour
Bibliography: Tomás Harris 108; Loys Delteil 110 i.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1946
Accession Number: 1946.D1.40.73

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  • satire - Artistic device holding up human folly and vice to scorn, derision, or ridicule. [November 1994 scope note added; related term added; alternate term added. May 1994 related term added.]

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm (8.5 x 5.9 in.)

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