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Plate 23 from "Los Caprichos": These specks of dust (Aquellos polbos), Francisco de Goya

Plate 23 from "Los Caprichos": These specks of dust (Aquellos polbos)

Plate 23 from "Los Caprichos": These specks of dust (Aquellos polbos) (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish) (1746-1828)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1799
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin
Dimensions
21.5 × 14.8 cm
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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