'Well-Known Folly' from the 'Disparates' (Follies / Irrationalities, Plate A)
One of the four additonal plates prepared for the set but not included in the posthumous first edition published by the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1864 under the title 'Los Proverbios',
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- Title: 'Well-Known Folly' from the 'Disparates' (Follies / Irrationalities, Plate A)
- Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
- Date: ca. 1815–19 (published before 1877)
- Medium: Etching and burnished aquatint
- Dimensions: Plate: 9 5/8 × 13 3/4 in. (24.5 × 35 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 14 15/16 in. (27.5 × 38 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
- Object Number: 22.63.146
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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