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Origin of the harpoons or banderillas

Francisco GOYA y Lucientes
Origin of the harpoons or banderillas
(Origen de los arpones ó banderillas)
 (c. 1815-1816); published 1816
plate 7 from La Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting) series (c. 1815–16), published 1816

Medium
etching, burnished aquatint and burin

Measurements
20.1 × 31.5 cm (image) 24.4 × 35.0 cm (plate) 26.7 × 36.4 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund, 1919

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Madrid, Spain

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Harris 210.III.1

Edition
1st edition

Printing/Publishing
published by Goya, Madrid

Inscription
printed in ink u.r.: 7
inscribed in pencil u.r.: E75
stamped in red ink l.l.: CLR (Lugt 595: Rutherston)
stamped in blue ink on reverse c.: PUBLIC LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Accession Number
1998.255.7

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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