Cleveland Museum of Art
Swallow it, Dog!, Plate 58
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1799 (printed c. 1855)
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 104540
From LinkedCulture
A cloaked figure shoves a long stick toward a kneeling, supplicating person while a crowd of grotesque, leering faces press in from the right, and a shadowy winged form hovers above. The caption beneath reads "Tragala perro," meaning "swallow it, dog." This is Plate 58 from Francisco de Goya's Los Caprichos, an etching and aquatint published in Spain in 1799. The series remains one of the most powerful works of social criticism in printmaking history, using nightmare imagery to expose coercion, superstition, and blind obedience.
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A group of people in dark clothing and masks, some holding objects, appear to be in a chaotic scene.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund
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