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What a tailor can do! (Lo que puede un sastre!)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Artwork Details

What a tailor can do! (Lo que puede un sastre!)
1799
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on paper
12 x 8 in. (30.48 x 20.32 cm);8 ½ x 5 7/8 in. (21.59 x 14.92 cm);7 5/8 x 4 13/16 in. (19.37 x 12.22 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
2008/1.152.52

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Plate 52
What a tailor can do!
(Lo que puede un sastre!)
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, and burin
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2008/1.152.52
Commentary: How often can some ridiculous creature be suddenly transformed into a presumptuous coxcomb who is nothing but appears to be much. That is what can be done by the ability of a tailor and the stupidity of those who judge things by their appearance.

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