FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES | Los Desastres de la Guerra (D. 120-199; H. 121-200)

The complete set, comprising 80 etchings with aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1810-20, fine, early impressions from the First Edition a-b, before the corrections on plates 9, 34, 36, 39 and 47 (Harris notes that the titles were progressively corrected and was unaware of any extant impressions of plate 36 in this edition), published by the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1863, on wove paper, many sheets with a partial J.G.O or palmette watermark, loose (as issued)

The Collection of W. G. Russell Allen; donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; private collection, purchased in the 1974 deacquisition, sanctioned by E. Sayrs; sold Christie's Paris, 29 November 2005, Lot 64, where acquired by the present owner

With wide margins, good condition, some sheets with small areas of minor paper thinning in the margins, several sheets with finger marks verso, Plate 21 with a pin hole in the left margin, Plates 69 and 80 with a few faint areas of paper discoloration associated with previous hinging on the reverse, contained in an archival clamshell box.
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