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A Spanish mounted knight in the ring breaking short spears without the help of assistants

A Spanish mounted knight in the ring breaking short spears without the help of assistants
(Un caballero español en plaza quebrando rejoncillos sin auxilio de los chulos)
(c. 1815-1816); published 1816
plate 13 from La Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting) series (c. 1815–16), published 1816

Medium
etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin

Measurements
20.2 × 30.6 cm (image) 24.7 × 35.0 cm (plate) 26.8 × 37.0 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 216.III.1

Edition
1st edition

Printing/Publishing
published by Goya, Madrid

Inscription
printed in ink u.r.: 13
inscribed in pencil u.r.: E81
stamped in red ink l.l.: CLR (Lugt 595: Rutherston)
stamped in blue ink on reverse c.: PUBLIC LIBRAY OF VICTORIA

Accession Number
1998.255.13

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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