Plate C: The dogs let loose on the bull, from "Tauromaquia"

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

ca. 1816 · Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin · Drawings and Prints

One of seven additional plates for the Tauromaquia, first published by E. Loizelet in 1876 This impression from the posthumous fourth edition.

Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
Date: ca. 1816
Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985

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