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Title:A man stabbing another; folio 53 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)
Series/Portfolio:Images of Spain Album
Artist:Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
Date:ca. 1812–20
Medium:Brush and gray and brown washes on laid paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 8-1/16 x 5-5/8 in. (20.5 x 14.3cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Accession Number:35.103.33
Inscription: Numbered in brush and brown ink upper right:'53'; to the right of which in pen and dark ink: '33.' [pertaining to Fortuny Album I, no.33]
Javier Goya y Bayeu, (from 1828); Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (Spanish), (from 1854); Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish), (from ca. 1855–1863); Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, (by gift in 1894)
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Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya." MMA Papers no. 7. New York, 1938.
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