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Nanny’s Boy (El de la rollona)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Artwork Details

Nanny’s Boy (El de la rollona)
1799
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
etching and burnished aquatint on paper
12 x 8 in. (30.48 x 20.32 cm);7 1/8 x 5 1/16 in. (18.1 x 12.86 cm);8 x 5 7/8 in. (20.32 x 14.92 cm);19 x 14 in. (48.26 x 35.56 cm)
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with the funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2008/1.152.4

Description

Plate 4
Nanny’s Boy.
(El de la rollona.)
Etching and burnished aquatint
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2008/1.152.4
Commentary: Negligence, tolerance, and spoiling make children capricious, naughty, vain, greedy, lazy, and insufferable. They grow up and yet remain childish. This is nanny’s little boy.

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