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Unos à otros (What one does to another), plate 77 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799)

Artist/Maker (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Date1797–99
MediumEtching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, and burin
DimensionsImage: 7 × 5 1/4 in. (17.8 × 13.3 cm)
Plate: 8 3/8 × 6 in. (21.3 × 15.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 7 in. (29.4 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineRichard Lee Ripin Art Purchase Fund
EditionPlate 77 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799)
PortfolioPlate 77 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799)
Object number2021.26.5
Status
Not on view
More Information
A monk and a nobleman wearing outdated clothes ride piggyback on a cleric and a footman. They take turns wielding picas—lances used by picadors to provoke bulls in bullfights—to attack a basketry bull held up by a crouching peasant.

Unlike a bull in the ring, the peasant is forced to face two assailants. Adding insult to injury, the skeletal nobleman thrusts his pica into the most vulnerable part of the bull, his belly, rather than in his neck, as a picador would do.
Exhibition History
Wit and Wisdom: Political and Social Satire in the Prints of Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 27, 2022 - December 23, 2022 )
Collections
  • European
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