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Title: Qual la descanonan!
Alternative Title: How they pluck her!
Los Caprichos, 1st edition, plate 21
Creator: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1799
Publication Information: Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Museum of Art
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Francisco Goya Prints
Rights Information: Physical rights are retained by Pomona College Museum of Art. Copyright is retained in accordance with U S Copyright Laws.
Description: Two men with lion's heads and paws hold the wings of a small human-headed bird. The man on the left bites into the wing while the man on the right watches mournfully. Behind them, a third lion-headed man, wearing judge's robes, looking upward.
Type: image
Format: Etching and aquatint on Paper
image/jpeg
8 7/16 in. x 5 11/16 in. (21.5 cm. x 14.5 cm.)
Identifier: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOROOT=/fgp&CISOFIELD1=object&CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=P74.39
P74.39
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fgp/id/214
Language: Spanish
Subject: Satire (artistic device)
Etchings (printing process)
Lions
Birds
Public officers
Swords
Men
Imaginary creatures
Time Period: Early Modern (18th-19th centuries)
Place: Europe
Source: Scan taken from a slide.
Relation: Western Prints and Drawings
Francisco Goya Prints - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/fgp

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