Los caprichos, by Goya

An image of Los caprichos. Album with the set of 80 etched plates. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Etching, aquatint, black carbon ink, sepia, on paper, height 308 mm, width 205 mm, 1799. Notes: This plate is titled Tell-tales and depicts 'The tale-bearing witches [who] are the most annoying in all witchcraft and the least intelligent in that art. If they really knew something they wouldn't get involved in telling tales.' Goya created the image by etching a combination of lines and aquatinted tone, which he then burnished to create highlights.

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Los caprichos. Album with the set of 80 etched plates. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Etching, aquatint, black carbon ink, sepia, on paper, height 308 mm, width 205 mm, 1799. Notes: This plate is titled Tell-tales and depicts 'The tale-bearing witches [who] are the most annoying in all witchcraft and the least intelligent in that art. If they really knew something they wouldn't get involved in telling tales.' Goya created the image by etching a combination of lines and aquatinted tone, which he then burnished to create highlights.

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Accession Number: P.1-1986
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Michael Jones
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Image width: 705 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 681.29kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 100
Captured: 2012:03:28 14:12:45

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