Plate D from the 'Disparates': Fools-'or Little Bulls' - folly
One of the four additonal plates prepared for the set but not included in the posthumous first edition published by the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1864 under the title 'Los Proverbios',
Credit: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
c. 1816-23 (published 1877)
Etching, aquatint and drypoint
24.5 x 35.0cm
1986.1180.900
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