Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Duro es el paso! ('It's a hard step!') (D. 133; H. 134)
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes Duro es el paso! ('It's a hard step!') (D. 133; H. 134) etching with drypoint and engraving, Harris's state I i, an exceptionally rare working proof before letters and numbers (Harris records one other example, with the same watermark, in the Museum of Modern Art, New York), a fine impression, on laid paper, watermarked SERRA, with wide margins, the number 17 in pen and ink in the upper right corner, the artist's name and a price (5/-) in pencil in the lower margin, a vertical crease in the right margin (outside the platemark), a further soft crease across the tip of the upper right corner, minor soft creasing elsewhere, a short break in the paper surface in the left margin, scattered foxing and staining, remains of old adhesive on the reverse at the upper sheet edge where previously mounted, and lesser defects P. 143 x 167 mm., S. 220 x 330 mm.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Duro es el paso! ('It's a hard step!') (D. 133; H. 134)
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes Duro es el paso! ('It's a hard step!') (D. 133; H. 134) etching with drypoint and engraving, Harris's state I i, an exceptionally rare working proof before letters and numbers (Harris records one other example, with the same watermark, in the Museum of Modern Art, New York), a fine impression, on laid paper, watermarked SERRA, with wide margins, the number 17 in pen and ink in the upper right corner, the artist's name and a price (5/-) in pencil in the lower margin, a vertical crease in the right margin (outside the platemark), a further soft crease across the tip of the upper right corner, minor soft creasing elsewhere, a short break in the paper surface in the left margin, scattered foxing and staining, remains of old adhesive on the reverse at the upper sheet edge where previously mounted, and lesser defects P. 143 x 167 mm., S. 220 x 330 mm.
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