FRANCISCO JOSE DE GOYA, Margarita de Austria.

Etching printed in black on cream laid paper. First edition, before the bevel of the plate and before the second edition (also before the bevel) which was printed in a "pale, grayish sepia ink," according to Harris. After a painting by Velazquez. According to Harris, the first edition of this print, pulled at the Calcografia, Madrid, in 1778-79, appears "to have been small."

1778

375x313 mm; 14 3/4x12 3/8 inches, wide margins.

Delteil 7; Harris 6.