Unas de Gato y habito de beato - The claws of a cat and the dress of a devotee - Similar to Vice is often clothed in Virtue's Habit - Disparate General (General Folly)

Etching and burnished aquatint  1815-19

245 x 350mm [sheet 380 x 560mm]

Ref: Harris 256, eighth edition.

Plate 9 from Los Proverbios made in the Calcographia for the Real Academia in 1930. Edition of 100, on laid Arches watermarked paper with monogram.

Harris states, this edition, the eighth, is very well printed and perhaps the finest after the second.

Exhibition: Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya, Holburne Museum, Bath, September 2024 - January 2025.