Artwork

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 16: For He...

The young woman left her home as a little girl. She did her apprenticeship at Cadiz, she came to Madrid: there she “won the lottery”. She goes down to the...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 15: Good a...

The advice is worthy of her who gives it. The worst of it is that the girl will follow it absolutely to the letter. Unhappy the man who gets anywhere...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 14: What a...

That’s how things are! The fiancé is not very attractive, but he is rich, and at the cost of the freedom of an unhappy girl, the security of a hungry...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 13: They a...

They are in such a hurry to gobble it down that they swallow it boiling hot.  Even in pleasure, temperance and moderation are necessary. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 12: Out hu...

The teeth of a hanged man are very efficacious for sorceries; without this ingredient there is not much you can do.  What a pity the common people should believe such...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 11: Lads m...

Their faces and clothes make it clear what they are Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a legendary Spanish painter and printmaker who is renowned as the first...