id:			171329
accession number:	2014.15
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.15
updated:		2025-04-19 11:09:36.294000

Los Caprichos: They Spin Finely, Plate 44, 1799. Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828). Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving printed in sepia; image: 19.1 x 13 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.); platemark: 21.8 x 15.3 cm (8 9/16 x 6 in.); sheet: 30.2 x 19.5 cm (11 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Purchase Fund, 2014.15

title:				They Spin Finely, Plate 44
title in original language:	
series:				Los Caprichos
series in original language:	
creation date:			1799
creation date earliest:		1799
creation date latest:		1799
current location:		
creditline:			Sundry Purchase Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Spain, 18th century
technique:	Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving printed in sepia
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Harris 79 II, Trial Proof 

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CREATORS

* Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 19.1 x 13 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.); Platemark: 21.8 x 15.3 cm (8 9/16 x 6 in.); Sheet: 30.2 x 19.5 cm (11 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
state of the work:	Trial Proof
edition of the work: 	First Edition

support materials:

	description:	medium-weight laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Lower left margin, in graphite: MK 30262
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	remark:		

	inscription:	Engraved in plate: 44, upper right corner, and Hilan Delgado, below image, center.
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Imagination in the Age of Reason
	opening date:   2024-09-28T04:00:00
	<i>Imagination in the Age of Reason</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY (stock number: MK 30262)
	date: c. 1929
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	(Susan Schulman Printsellers, New York, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?–2014
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 2, 2014–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Glaubinger, Jane. “Acquisition Highlights 2014: Prints.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 55, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 24.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 24.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-02

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