Tale-bearers—Blasts of wind (Soplones)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
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Description
Plate 48
Tale-bearers—Blasts of wind.
(Soplones.)
Etching and burnished aquatint
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2008/1.152.48
Commentary: The tale-bearing witches are the most irritating in all witchcraft and the least intelligent in that art; if they really knew something they wouldn’t blast it about.
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