Aquatint etching, From the sixth edition of 50 prints
12" x 17"
Unsigned
Los Disparates (aka Los Proverbios), 1864
Suite including plate no. 5 Disparate Volante; no. 7 Disparate Desordenado; no. 8 Disparate Los Ensados; no. 11 Disparate Pobre; no. 14 Disparate de Carnaval and no. 18 Disparate Funebre
We believe this suite is probably from the sixth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional for the Real Academia in 1916; This judgment is based upon the sheet size and the presence of a watermark in plate 18 as well as other considerations. Assistance for this research conducted by Mindy Freeman, then a Paper Conservationist with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York University’s Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts.
Engraved plate no. in upper right hand corner within platemark on all six prints. On plate 18 there is also a watermark in paper.
Suite is in portfolio with all works matted in acid free mats.