Plate 4 from the 'Disparates': Simpleton
Posthumous but prior to the first edition published by the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1864 under the title 'Los Proverbios'.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1921
c. 1816-23 (published between 1854-63)
Etching, burnished aquatint burin and drypoint
24.5 x 35.0cm
21.54.1
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