Plate 21 from "La Tauromaquia": Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Torrejon, Francisco de Goya

Plate 21 from "La Tauromaquia": Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Torrejon

Plate 21 from "La Tauromaquia": Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Torrejon (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish) (1746-1828)

Movement: Romanticism
Date: 1816
Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, wash, drypoint, burin
Dimensions: 24.6 × 35.2 cm
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights: Public domain
Photograph: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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Plate 23 from "La Tauromaquia": Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse

Plate 23 from "La Tauromaquia": Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse

Plate 28 of "La Tauromaquia": The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid

Plate 28 of "La Tauromaquia": The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid

Plate 30 from "La Tauromaquia": Pedro Romero killing the halted bull

Plate 30 from "La Tauromaquia": Pedro Romero killing the halted bull

Plate 32 from "La Tauromaquia": Two teams of picadors thrown one after the other by a single bull

Plate 32 from "La Tauromaquia": Two teams of picadors thrown one after the other by a single bull

Plate 33 from "La Tauromaquia": The unlucky death of Pepe Illo in the ring at Madrid

Plate 33 from "La Tauromaquia": The unlucky death of Pepe Illo in the ring at Madrid

You'll See Later; a man drinking, a woman trying to stop him; page 24 from the "Black Border Album" (E)

You'll See Later; a man drinking, a woman trying to stop him; page 24 from the "Black Border Album" (E)

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Portrait of Don Fr. Miguel Fernandez y Flores

Portrait of Don Fr. Miguel Fernandez y Flores