Plate 9 from the 'Disparates':General folly
From the posthumous first edition published by the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1864 under the title 'Los Proverbios'.
Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
c. 1816-23 (published 1864)
Etching and burnished aquatint
24.5 x 35.5 cm
24.30.10
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