Museum Exhibition

Catalogue of Works

Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya

National Gallery of Art

107 documented works

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Rowlandson, Thomas

A Bawd on Her Last Legs

1784, pubished 1785

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint on laid paper

sheet: 29.8 × 41.5 cm (11 3/4 × 16 5/16 in.) plate: 27.2 × 37.8 cm (10 11/16 × 14 7/8 in.)

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Rowlandson, Thomas

A Bawd on Her Last Legs

1784, published 1792

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint with hand coloring on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 27.5 × 37.5 cm (10 13/16 × 14 3/4 in.)

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Delacroix, Eugène

A Blacksmith (Un Forgeron)

1833

aquatint on laid paper

image: 15.9 × 96 cm (6 1/4 × 37 13/16 in.) plate: 22.5 × 16.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.) sheet: 57.5 × 37.2 cm (22 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

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Delacroix, Eugène

A Blacksmith (Un Forgeron)

1833

aquatint and drypoint on laid paper

plate: 22.6 × 16 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 39.8 × 32 cm (15 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

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Dürer, Albrecht

A Crouching Apostle (Saint Peter)

1785

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 26.1 x 25 cm (10 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 43.5 x 35.9 cm (17 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

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French 18th Century

A Fan with Classical Figures Processing to Apollo

c. 1795

etching, aquatint and roulette printed in brown on laid paper

sheet: 49.2 × 24.4 cm (19 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.) (cut inside platemark and measured at widest points)

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Fischer, Maria Anna

A Lakeside Chapel by Moonlight

1810s(?)

etching and aquatint

sheet: 14.7 × 21 cm (5 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.) plate: 13.5 × 19.8 cm (5 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.) image: 11.8 × 18.7 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)

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Richardson, George

A New Collection of Chimney Pieces, Ornamented to the Style of the Etruscan, Greek and Roman Architecture; Containing Thirty Six Designs suitable to the most Elegant Range of Apartments

1781

bound volume with letterpress title page, letterpress text, and 36 etching and aquatints on laid paper

book (volume closed): 50.5 × 33.5 × 2 cm (19 7/8 × 13 3/16 × 13/16 in.)

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Greuze, Jean-Baptiste

A Tired Woman with Two Children

1750/1761

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper; laid down

sheet: 22.3 x 27.9 cm (8 3/4 x 11 in.) support: 24.5 x 29.7 cm (9 5/8 x 11 11/16 in.)

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Gandolfi, Gaetano

Adoration of the Shepherds

1780s

etching and aquatint on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.8 × 15.8 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

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Vasari, Giorgio

Allegory of Conception or Allegory of Redemption

1783

etching and aquatint printed in red-brown on laid paper

plate: 56.4 × 37.5 cm (22 3/16 × 14 3/4 in.) sheet: 58.4 × 43.1 cm (23 × 16 15/16 in.)

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Mortimer, John Hamilton

Banditti Robbing Fishermen

1771

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

sheet (trimmed to plate): 36 × 45.7 cm (14 3/16 × 18 in.)

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Fischer, Joseph

Boating Party in an Underground Cave

1794

etching and aquatint printed in brown on wove paper, mounted on an album sheet with a separate engraved text plate

image: 51.2 x 68 cm (20 3/16 x 26 3/4 in.) sheet: 51.4 x 68.1 cm (20 1/4 x 26 13/16 in.) overall (text plate): 7.8 x 68.1 cm (3 1/16 x 26 13/16 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

Brujas à volar (Witches Preparing to Fly) [verso]

1796/1797

brush and black ink and gray wash on laid paper

sheet: 23.7 × 15 cm (9 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

Buen Viage (Bon Voyage)

1799

etching, aquatint, and engraving with burnishing on laid paper

plate: 21.8 x 15.2 cm (8 9/16 x 6 in.) sheet: 29.6 x 21.5 cm (11 5/8 x 8 7/16 in.)

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Sandby, Paul

Caernarvon Castle (Night)

1776

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 23.9 x 31.6 cm (9 7/16 x 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 29 x 37.2 cm (11 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.)

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Empoli, Jacopo da

Christ Consigning the Keys to Saint Peter

c.1766

etching, sulfur tint, and roulette printed in green on laid paper

sheet: 61.5 × 44.5 cm (24 3/16 × 17 1/2 in.) plate: 50 × 38.5 cm (19 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.)

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Robert, Hubert

Colonnade et Jardins du Palais de Medici (Colonnade and Gardens of the Palazzo Medici)

c. 1776

etching and wash manner, printed in blue, red, yellow, and black inks

plate: 29.2 x 24.5 cm (11 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 37.5 x 29.3 cm (14 3/4 x 11 9/16 in.)

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Lagrenée, Jean Jacques II

Composition with Antique Vases

1782

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 21.8 × 29.1 cm (8 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 44 × 59.5 cm (17 5/16 × 23 7/16 in.)

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Veronese

Concert des Anges autour de l'enfant Jesus (Concert of Angels around the Infant Jesus)

1770s

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 40.3 × 31.2 cm (15 7/8 × 12 5/16 in.) sheet: 44.6 × 33.2 cm (17 9/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

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Galimberti, Francesco

Court of the Former State Inquisitors

1797

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 23.7 × 30.2 cm (9 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.9 × 34.9 cm (11 × 13 3/4 in.)

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Fragonard, Jean Honoré

Details from "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Pool at Bethesda"

1774

etching (counterproof) reworked in brown wash on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 18.6 x 13.1 cm (7 5/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

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Raphael

Diogenes

1779

aquatint and soft-ground etching printed in green and black

mount: 33.6 × 48.7 cm (13 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 18.3 × 26.4 cm (7 3/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

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Russ, Carl

Diogenes in His Tub with Alexander and His Generals

1810

etching and aquatint on wove paper

image: 20.9 × 30.1 cm (8 1/4 × 11 7/8 in.) plate: 21.4 × 30.8 cm (8 7/16 × 12 1/8 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 38.8 cm (10 15/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

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Robert, Hubert

Entrance of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli

1767

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

image: 25.4 × 32.4 cm (10 × 12 3/4 in.) plate: 27 × 37 cm (10 5/8 × 14 9/16 in.) sheet: 30.6 × 38.8 cm (12 1/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

Estan Calientes (They Are Hot)

1799

etching and aquatint with burnishing on laid paper

plate: 21.5 x 15.4 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/16 in.) sheet: 30.5 x 21.2 cm (12 x 8 3/8 in.)

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Labruzzi, Carlo

Family at Rest

1788

etching and aquatint in brown on laid paper

plate: 13.4 x 18.3 cm (5 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.) page size: 25.9 x 18.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.)

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Labruzzi, Carlo

Figure Originali (Original Figures)

1788

bound volume with 13 etching and aquatints printed in brown on laid paper

page size: 25.9 x 18.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.) overall size (volume closed): 26.5 x 20.2 x 1.4 cm (10 7/16 x 7 15/16 x 9/16 in.)

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Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis

Fisherman with Pack over His Shoulder

1779, published 1781

chalk manner and aquatint with etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 14.4 × 21.1 cm (5 11/16 × 8 5/16 in.)

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Saint-Non, Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de

Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les tableaux les plus intéressants des palais et des églises de l'Italie (Fragments chosen from the most interesting paintings and canvases of the palaces and churches of Italy)

1767-1775

bound volume with 200 etching and aquatint illustrations (6 titles, 194 plates), printed in brown and black on laid paper

book (volume closed): 27.7 × 20.7 × 3.5 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/8 × 1 3/8 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

Fuerte cosa es! (That's Tough!)

1810 / 1820

etching, aquatint, and drypoint with burnishing (proof) on laid paper

plate: 15.5 × 20.3 cm (6 1/8 × 8 in.) sheet: 19.4 × 25.1 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.)

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David, Giovanni

Gaspar Gribolari brocanteur à Padoue (Gaspar Gribolari, Secondhand Dealer in Padua)

1775

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 23.9 × 16.7 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.) sheet: 38.7 × 27.2 cm (15 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.)

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David, Giovanni

Gaspar Gribolari Brocanteur à Padoüe (Gaspar Gribolari, Secondhand Dealer in Padua)

1775

etching on laid paper

plate: 24.2 x 17 cm (9 1/2 x 6 11/16 in.) sheet: 37.9 x 26.8 cm (14 15/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

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Van Loo, Carle

Guardhouse

1758

chalk manner and softground etching printed in brown ink on laid paper

plate: 45.9 x 67.8 cm (18 1/16 x 26 11/16 in.) sheet: 47.4 x 68 cm (18 11/16 x 26 3/4 in.)

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Boucher, François

Guardhouse

1762

etching and aquatint with roulette printed in brown on laid paper

image: 31.7 × 22.6 cm (12 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.) plate: 39.5 × 25.8 cm (15 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 57.9 × 42.7 cm (22 13/16 × 16 13/16 in.)

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Head of a Drooping Old Woman

1768

etching and aquatint on laid paper

sheet: 14.9 × 11 cm (5 7/8 × 4 5/16 in.), trimmed within platemark

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Head of a Man, Slightly Turned

1768

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 14.4 × 11.1 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 14.4 × 11.2 cm (5 11/16 × 4 7/16 in.)

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Head of a Turbaned Man

1768

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 15.2 × 11.1 cm (6 × 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 15.5 × 11.3 cm (6 1/8 × 4 7/16 in.)

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Head of a Turbaned Man without a Moustache

1768

etching and aquatint on laid paper

image: 10.5 × 9 cm (4 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 14.9 × 10.4 cm (5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.), cut within platemark

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Head of a Woman, Full Face

1768

etching and aquatint on laid paper

image: 10.2 × 8.7 cm (4 × 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 14.2 × 11.4 cm (5 9/16 × 4 1/2 in.), trimmed within platemark

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Head of a Young Woman

1768

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 15.2 × 11.6 cm (6 × 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 15.2 × 11.7 cm (6 × 4 5/8 in.)

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Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis

Horticulturist

1780, published 1787

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 9.2 × 12.8 cm (3 5/8 × 5 1/16 in.)

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Greuze, Jean-Baptiste

Italian Peasant Woman

1762/1766

etching and aquatint on laid paper [proof ]

sheet (trimmed to plate): 22.8 × 16.7 cm (9 × 6 9/16 in.)

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Sandby, Paul

Italianate Landscape

1762/ c. 1774

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on wove paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 42.9 x 33.8 cm (16 7/8 x 13 5/16 in.)

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Dyck, Anthony van, Sir

Jacob Persuaded to Send Benjamin with His Brethren into Egypt

1762

stipple etching and roulette on laid paper

plate: 30.7 × 30.7 cm (12 1/16 × 12 1/16 in.) sheet: 33.8 × 31.9 cm (13 5/16 × 12 9/16 in.)

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David, Giovanni

La Cuisiniere (The Cook)

1775

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 23.9 × 16.9 cm (9 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 39.2 × 26.8 cm (15 7/16 × 10 9/16 in.) (irregular)

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Fragonard, Jean Honoré

La Culbute (The Tumble)

1766

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

image: 27.6 × 39.3 cm (10 7/8 × 15 1/2 in.) plate: 30 × 41.7 cm (11 13/16 × 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 34 × 47 cm (13 3/8 × 18 1/2 in.)

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David, Giovanni

La Dame Venitienne en abit de masque (Venetian Woman in Carnival Dress)

1775

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 24 × 16.6 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.) sheet: 38.4 × 26.6 cm (15 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.) (irregular)

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Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis

Lady with Double-Headed Lute

1781

aquatint with etching on laid paper

shee (trimmed within platemark)t: 15.7 × 12.8 cm (6 3/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

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Prestel, Maria Catharina

Landscape with Two Trees

1782-1785

aquatint printed in gray and brown

mount: 48.7 × 33.4 cm (19 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 28 × 24 cm (11 × 9 7/16 in.)

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Tresham, Henry

Le Avventure di Saffo (The Adventures of Sappho)

1784

bound volume with engraved, etched, and aquatinted title page, engraved introduction, and eighteen etching and aquatints printed in brown, black, light green, and gray on laid paper

book (volume closed): 44 × 33.5 × 0.9 cm (17 5/16 × 13 3/16 × 3/8 in.)

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David, Giovanni

Le Gondolier (The Gondolier)

1775

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 23.9 × 16.5 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 39.5 × 27.1 cm (15 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

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David, Giovanni

Le Masque au caffé (The Masked Man Taking Coffee)

1775

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 24.1 × 16.5 cm (9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 39.8 × 27.8 cm (15 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

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David, Giovanni

Le Paveur (The Road Paver)

1775

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 24 × 16.6 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.) sheet: 38.3 × 28.6 cm (15 1/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

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David, Giovanni

Le Perruquier fatigué (The Tired Wigmaker)

1775

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 24 × 16.5 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 38.6 × 26.2 cm (15 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Les Laveuses (The Laundresses)

1771

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

sheet: 33.1 x 23.2 cm (13 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Les Pêcheurs (The Fishermen)

1771

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

image: 32.2 × 23.2 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 34.2 × 24.2 cm (13 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

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Van Loo, Carle

Marie-Rosalie Vanloo

c. 1764

chalk manner printed in black and white on blue paper

image: 35.8 x 28.9 cm (14 1/8 x 11 3/8 in.) plate: 40.2 x 30.2 cm (15 13/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

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Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus

Meister Floh. Ein Marchen in sieben Abentheuern zweier Freunde (Master Flea: A Fairy-Tale in Seven Adventures of Two Friends

1822

bound volume with two etching and aquatints printed in brown on the covers

book: 18.6 × 12.4 × 2 cm (7 5/16 × 4 7/8 × 13/16 in.)

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Gillray, James

Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast

1787

etching, engraving, and aquatint, with publisher's hand coloring in watercolor, on laid paper

sheet: 37.8 × 47.8 cm (14 7/8 × 18 13/16 in.)

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Molitor, Martin von

Mountain Landscape with a Rocky Outcrop

1795

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 16.8 × 24.5 cm (6 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 17 × 24.8 cm (6 11/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

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Parmigianino

Mucius Scaevola Putting his Hand in a Fire

1720s

chiaroscuro woodcut printed from 3 blocks in green, pink, and red on laid paper

sheet (trimmed to block): 23.5 × 18.1 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/8 in.)

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Paroy Comte de, Jean-Philippe-Guy le Gentil

Mythological Roundels

1790s

etching and aquatint with roulette on laid paper

plate: 27.3 × 16.5 cm (10 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 30.5 × 19 cm (12 × 7 1/2 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

Nada (Nothing)

1810/1820

etching, aquatint and lavis with burnishing (proof) on laid paper

sheet: 22.2 × 32.1 cm (8 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.) plate: 15.3 × 19.5 cm (6 × 7 11/16 in.)

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Boucher, François

Naiads and Tritons

1766

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 23.7 × 37.4 cm (9 5/16 × 14 3/4 in.) sheet: 31.3 × 44 cm (12 5/16 × 17 5/16 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

No hay quien nos desate? (Can't Anyone Untie Us?)

1799

etching and aquatint with burnishing on laid paper

plate: 21.6 x 15.2 cm (8 1/2 x 6 in.) sheet: 28.7 x 18.9 cm (11 5/16 x 7 7/16 in.)

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Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste

Oeuvre de J. B. Le Prince Sur les Moeurs, les Coutumes et les Habillemens de différents Peuples, Gravé en partie à l'Eau Forte et le reste par le procédé qu'il a inventé pour produire l'effet des Desseins lavés

in or after 1770

Bound volume with engraved title page, 88 etchings, and 36 etchings and aquatints printed in brown on laid paper [plus one loose etching and engraving by Guillaume-Philippe Benoist after Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (see 1942.9.1640)]

book (volume closed): 56.7 × 42 × 3 cm (22 5/16 × 16 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.) page size: 55.5 × 40 cm (21 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)

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Lagrenée, Jean Jacques II

Ornamental Frieze

1784-1785

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 12.5 × 49.8 cm (4 15/16 × 19 5/8 in.) sheet: 43.1 × 57.5 cm (16 15/16 × 22 5/8 in.)

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Lagrenée, Jean Jacques II

Ornamental Frieze

1784-1785

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 12.2 × 50.1 cm (4 13/16 × 19 3/4 in.) sheet: 42.9 × 58 cm (16 7/8 × 22 13/16 in.)

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Galerie Goupil

Pêche du Cachalot, Cachalot Fishery

c. 1834-1835

etching, aquatint, and engraving on wove paper

image: 55.88 × 80.96 cm (22 × 31 7/8 in.) sheet: 81.6 × 104.46 cm (32 1/8 × 41 1/8 in.)

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Van Loo, Carle

Persée et Andromede (Perseus and Andromeda)

1762

etching and aquatint with roulette and burnishing printed in brown-black on laid paper

image: 34.5 × 47.8 cm (13 9/16 × 18 13/16 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 40.6 × 50.7 cm (16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Sandby, Paul

Pont-y-Pair over the River Conway above Llanrwst in the County of Denbigh

1776

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint with burnishing printed in brown on laid paper

sheet: 32.2 × 39.8 cm (12 11/16 × 15 11/16 in.) plate: 23.7 × 31.3 cm (9 5/16 × 12 5/16 in.) image: 21.8 × 29.6 cm (8 9/16 × 11 5/8 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

Por que fue sensible (Because She Was Susceptible)

published 1799

lift-ground aquatint and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 21.8 x 15.2 cm (8 9/16 x 6 in.) page size: 30.8 x 19.3 cm (12 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.) image: 17.3 x 11.4 cm (6 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

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Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Seascape

1782-1785

etching and aquatint

mount: 48.5 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16 × 23 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

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Vitringa, Wigerus

Seascape

1782-1785

etching and aquatint

mount: 48.5 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 15 × 20.1 cm (5 7/8 × 7 15/16 in.)

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Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis

Seascape with Full Moon

1779, published 1781

aquatint printed on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within platemark)t: 13.8 × 20.8 cm (5 7/16 × 8 3/16 in.)

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Fischer, Joseph

Self-Portrait with an Injured Foot

1798

etching and aquatint printed in brown

sheet: 13.2 × 22.8 cm (5 3/16 × 9 in.)

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Fragonard, Jean Honoré

Stairway in an Italian Garden

1766

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

plate: 21.5 × 28.4 cm (8 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.) sheet: 26.1 × 33.4 cm (10 1/4 × 13 1/8 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

Subir y bajar (To Rise and To Fall)

1799

etching and aquatint with burnishing on laid paper

plate: 21.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 in.) sheet: 27.6 x 19.1 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.)

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Galimberti, Francesco

The "Giardin Scuro," for Executions by Strangling

1797

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 23.7 × 30.2 cm (9 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 29.6 × 38 cm (11 5/8 × 14 15/16 in.)

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Galimberti, Francesco

The "Ovens," for Those Who Wouldn't Admit Their Crimes

1797

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 24.7 × 30.2 cm (9 3/4 × 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 30.7 × 39.2 cm (12 1/16 × 15 7/16 in.)

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Galimberti, Francesco

The "Sotto Piombi," Where Death Sentences Were Read

1797

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 23.9 × 30.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.) sheet: 28.2 × 35.4 cm (11 1/8 × 13 15/16 in.)

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Galimberti, Francesco

The "Well," for Violators of State Law

1797

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 24.5 × 30.5 cm (9 5/8 × 12 in.) sheet: 30 × 41.1 cm (11 13/16 × 16 3/16 in.)

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German 16th Century

The Adoration of the Shepherds

1782-1785

etching and aquatint in printed in red-brown and black

mount: 48.6 × 33.5 cm (19 1/8 × 13 3/16 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 32 × 22.2 cm (12 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)

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Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus

The Artist in His Mother's Room, Danzig

1774

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 11.8 x 18.2 cm (4 5/8 x 7 3/16 in.) sheet: 18.7 x 26.4 cm (7 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)

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Carracci, Lodovico

The Ascension of the Virgin

1776

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper, laid down on Liechtenstein album page

sheet (trimmed to plate): 68.7 × 40.6 cm (27 1/16 × 16 in.) mount: 74.5 × 51 cm (29 5/16 × 20 1/16 in.)

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Galimberti, Francesco

The Canal dei Marani, Where State Inquisitors Had Them Drowned

1797

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 23.6 × 30.3 cm (9 5/16 × 11 15/16 in.) sheet: 28.1 × 35 cm (11 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.)

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Hüet, Jean-Baptiste

The Four Seasons

1780s

etching and aquatint printed in brown and blue with hand coloring on laid paper

plate: 34 x 30.5 cm (13 3/8 x 12 in.) sheet: 37.8 x 33.2 cm (14 7/8 x 13 1/16 in.)

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Raphael

The Holy Family

1724

etching and mezzotint with woodcut printed in brown and ocher on laid paper

block: 27.9 x 35.1 cm (11 x 13 13/16 in.) sheet: 29.2 x 37.5 cm (11 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.)

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Jukes, Francis

The Inner Courtyard of Old Somerset House in the Strand

1777

etching, aquatint, and mezzotint on laid paper

sheet: 51.3 × 72.5 cm (20 3/16 × 28 9/16 in.) plate: 50.4 × 71.5 cm (19 13/16 × 28 1/8 in.) image: 43.6 × 68.2 cm (17 3/16 × 26 7/8 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

The Jester Barbarroja

c. 1778

etching, aquatint, burin and roulette [proof] on laid paper

sheet: 44.1 × 32.5 cm (17 3/8 × 12 13/16 in.) plate: 28.2 × 16.7 cm (11 1/8 × 6 9/16 in.) image: 25.9 × 14 cm (10 3/16 × 5 1/2 in.)

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Galimberti, Francesco

The Last Underground Prison: He Fell Dead into His Brother's Arms

1797

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 24 × 30.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.) sheet: 28.3 × 34.9 cm (11 1/8 × 13 3/4 in.)

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Jukes, Francis

The North Front of Old Somerset House in the Strand

1777

etching, aquatint, and mezzotint on laid paper

sheet: 51.4 × 72.5 cm (20 1/4 × 28 9/16 in.) plate: 50.5 × 71.5 cm (19 7/8 × 28 1/8 in.) image: 43.2 × 67.1 cm (17 × 26 7/16 in.)

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Prestel, Johann Gottlieb

The Temple of Hercules at Cori

c.1784

color etching and aquatint with roulette on wove paper

sheet: 49.1 x 65.1 cm (19 5/16 x 25 5/8 in.)

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Ligozzi, Jacopo

The Triumph of Truth Over Envy

1781

etching and aquatint printed in brown with gold leaf

mount: 48.7 × 33.5 cm (19 3/16 × 13 3/16 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 30.4 × 22.8 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.)

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Fragonard, Jean Honoré

The Tumble

1766

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper [proof]

image: 27.5 × 39.5 cm (10 13/16 × 15 9/16 in.) plate: 29.9 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.) sheet: 35.7 × 54.1 cm (14 1/16 × 21 5/16 in.)

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Greville, Charles Francis

Title Page

c. 1786

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 25.2 × 35.5 cm (9 15/16 × 14 in.) sheet: 30.6 × 49.4 cm (12 1/16 × 19 7/16 in.)

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Lagrenée, Jean Jacques II

Title Page

1782

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper (proof)

plate: 21.6 × 29 cm (8 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 22 × 29.8 cm (8 11/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

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Desprez, Louis-Jean

Tomb with Death Standing

1779 / 1784

etching with black wash on laid paper (proof)

sheet: 34.2 × 49.3 cm (13 7/16 × 19 7/16 in.)

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Galimberti, Francesco

Underground Prisons, Known as "the Wells"

1797

etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 23.8 × 30.6 cm (9 3/8 × 12 1/16 in.) sheet: 28.2 × 35.3 cm (11 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.)

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Volaire, Pierre-Jacques

Vesuvausbruch von 1771 (The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1771)

1797

etching and aquatint printed in brown, laid down on a mount with a contemporary printed ornamental border on blue paper and collaged title

sheet: 20 × 30 cm (7 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.) mount: 24 × 33.8 cm (9 7/16 × 13 5/16 in.)

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Prestel, Maria Catharina

View of the Loss of the Rhone

1791

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 55.8 × 72.2 cm (21 15/16 × 28 7/16 in.) image: 48 × 69.5 cm (18 7/8 × 27 3/8 in.)

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Cooper II, Richard

View of the Remains of Caracalla's Baths, Taken from the Jesuits Gardens at Rome

1778

etching and aquatint in brown on laid paper

sheet (cut within platemark): 37.8 x 52.2 cm (14 7/8 x 20 9/16 in.)

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Hoüel, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent

Voyage Pittoresque des Isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari (vol. 1)

1782

Bound volume with letter press text and 72 etching and aquatints printed in brown on laid paper

book: 50.2 × 34.5 × 5 cm (19 3/4 × 13 9/16 × 1 15/16 in.) page size: 49.5 × 32.5 cm (19 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Londonio, Francesco

Woman Spinning Yarn by an Arch

1764

etching heightened with white on blue paper

shee (trimmed within platemark): 23.4 × 18 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.) mount: 43.2 × 27.9 cm (17 × 11 in.)

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Goya, Francisco

Y aun no se van! (And Still They Don't Go!)

1799

etching, aquatint, and engraving with burnishing on laid paper

plate: 21.4 × 15 cm (8 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 29.6 × 19.2 cm (11 5/8 × 7 9/16 in.)

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Tresham, Henry

ΦΑΙΝΟΜΑΙ ΑΠΝΟΥΣ (I Seem to Be Breathless)

1784

etching and aquatint printed in brown and gray on laid paper

plate: 28.7 × 21.5 cm (11 5/16 × 8 7/16 in.) sheet: 43.1 × 32.5 cm (16 15/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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