La Tauromaquia, by Goya

An image of Desgracias acaecidas en el tendido de la plaza de Madrid, y muerte del alcalde de Torrejon. La Tauromaquia - Plate 21. Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de (Spanish, 1746-1828). Etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint, burnishing (printmaking), black carbon ink on laid paper, height 193 mm, width 300 mm, 1816. Production Notes: Plate 21 from the first edition of La Tauromaquia, set of 33 plates made for Goya in 1816. Third state, on Sierra paper, cut impression.

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Desgracias acaecidas en el tendido de la plaza de Madrid, y muerte del alcalde de Torrejon. La Tauromaquia - Plate 21. Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de (Spanish, 1746-1828). Etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint, burnishing (printmaking), black carbon ink on laid paper, height 193 mm, width 300 mm, 1816. Production Notes: Plate 21 from the first edition of La Tauromaquia, set of 33 plates made for Goya in 1816. Third state, on Sierra paper, cut impression.

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Accession Number: P.65-1937
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
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Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 789.69kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2016:01:19 14:12:14

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