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Details
- Alternative title
- Linda maestra!
- Date
- 1797-1798
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint and drypoint
- Edition
- First edition of 1799
- Dimensions
- 18.4 x 12.3 cm image; 21.0 x 15.0 cm platemark; 31.0 x 22.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., incised in plate "Goya". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Tony Gilbert Bequest 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 397.2012
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Francisco de Goya Y Lucientes
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About
Plate 68 from 'Los caprichos', first edition 1799
In Goya’s ‘Los caprichos’ series, the young and the old, clergy and nobility, peasants and prostitutes, witches and goblins all coexist in a dark netherworld of moral corruption. In this print we find a wrinkled old witch instructing a novice in witchcraft by showing her how to fly on a broom. The ironic title (‘Pretty teacher!’) implies that the old witch is certainly no role model and corrupts rather than educates the young novice. The reversed broom, protruding suggestively between the novice’s thighs, seems to indicate that she is also being instructed in libidinous acts.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Tomás Harris, Goya. Engravings and Lithographs. Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1964, 145 (illus.). no.103
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Provenance
Paul Prouté, Paris/France, Purchased by the AGNSW from Paul Prouté 2012
