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Los Caprichos (The Caprices) is a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797–1798 and published as an album in 1799. The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya's satirizing Spanish society at the end of the 18th century, particularly the nobility and the clergy.
Los Caprichos is a series of 80 etchings published in 1799 wherein Goya criticized the rampant political, social, and religious abuses of the time period. In this series of etchings, Goya heavily utilized the popular technique of caricature, which he enriched with artistic innovation.
A collection of dead men: Etching and aquatint 15.3 x 20.6 Cartloads for the cemetery: Etching, aquatint, drypoint and engraving 15.2 x 20.8 What is this hubbub? Etching, aquatint, gouache and engraving 17.4 x 21.9 Strange devotion: Etching, aquatint and gouache 17.4 x 21.9 This is no less curious: Etching, aquatint, gouache, drypoint and engraving
The complete set includes 32 stamps. 14 of them with denominations between 1 céntimo and 5 pesetas (Scott #386–396 and 400–402), have similar design in different colors—a portrait of Francisco de Goya in his mature years (1826) by Vicente López y Portaña.
The first floor displays 22 prints from Los disparates series, 40 prints from La Tauromaquia and 82 prints from The Disasters of War, while the second floor displays 80 engravings from Los caprichos. The collection was created thanks to several donations of works from renowned artists bought after they were auctioned.
The Prisoners is a series of three etchings by Francisco de Goya, depicting imprisoned men with indistinct faces, bound with leg irons in stress positions.The prints are not dated, but they are believed to have been made between 1810 and 1815, around the time Goya started his print series The Disasters of War.
Los disparates (The Follies), also known as Proverbios or Sueños , is a series of prints in etching and aquatint, with retouching in drypoint and engraving, created by Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya between 1815 and 1823.
This is worse (Spanish: Esto es peor [1]) is an etching and wash drawing by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Completed between 1812 and 1815, though not published until 1863, it forms part of his The Disasters of War series, [2] which Goya created as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising and subsequent Peninsular War of 1808–1814.