Cleveland Museum of Art
When Day Breaks We Will Be Off, Plate 71
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
- 104555
From LinkedCulture
This print captures a coven of witches and demons crouched in darkness, waiting for dawn so they can finally scatter. One gaunt figure stretches a pale arm toward a star-scattered sky while the others press together against a deep black ground, rendered in etching and aquatint by Francisco de Goya in 1799. It is plate 71 from his Los Caprichos series, a biting satire of superstition published while the Spanish Inquisition still held power, making its creation an act of genuine personal daring.
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A group of people huddled together under a starry night sky.
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