It is Time, plate 80 from Los Caprichos
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.5 × 13.5 cm (7 11/16 × 5 3/8 in.); Plate: 21.5 × 15.1 cm (8 1/2 × 6 in.); Sheet: 30.4 × 20.1 cm (12 × 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44871
About the Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in the small Aragonese village of Fuendetodos, Spain, to José Benito de Goya, a master gilder, and Gracia de Lucientes. The fourth of six children in a modest lower-middle-class family, Goya received a basic education before beginning his artistic training at age 14 under the local painter José Luzán y Martínez in Zaragoza, where he sp...