Plate 53 from "Los Caprichos": What a golden beak! (Que pico de Oro!)
This print has been variously interpreted as a satire on the empty rhetoric of many public speakers and as an attack on sensationalist preachers and their gullible audiences. A parrot perches on a pulpit surrounded by an audience of gaping figures, all with the tonsured heads of clergymen except for the listener at center, who wears a bicorne hat and a look of disapproval.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate 53 from "Los Caprichos": What a golden beak! (Que pico de Oro!)
- Series/Portfolio: Los Caprichos
- Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
- Date: 1799
- Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, burin
- Dimensions: Plate: 8 7/16 x 5 7/8 in. (21.4 x 15 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 8 3/16 in. (29.4 × 20.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918
- Object Number: 18.64(53)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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