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Love and death

Francisco GOYA y Lucientes
Love and death
(El amor y la muerte)
 (1797-1798)
plate 10 from Los Caprichos (The Caprices) series (1797–98), published 1799

Medium
etching, burnished aquatint and burin printed in sepia ink

Measurements
19.0 × 13.4 cm (image) 21.6 × 15.2 cm (plate) 24.8 × 17.9 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1976

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Madrid, Spain

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Harris 45.III.1

Edition
1st edition

Printing/Publishing
published by Goya, Madrid

Inscription
inscribed in plate above image u.r.c.: 10.
inscribed in plate below image l.c.: El amor y la muerte

Accession Number
P1.10-1976

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Violence

Subjects (specific)
couples deaths duels embracing fighting passion (emotion) satire (artistic device)

Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles)

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