GOYA (Francisco de y Lucientes). Los Desastres de la Guerra - Lot 96

GOYA (Francisco de y Lucientes). Los Desastres de la Guerra Coleccion de ochenta láminas inventadas y grabadas al agua fuerte por Don Francisco Goya. Madrid, Reale Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863. In-4, Italian style. 1 f. title lithographed by J. Aragon, 1 f. n. p. with biographical note printed recto-verso on 2 col. Bound in red half-maroq, corners, gilt head, untrimmed, 5-rib spine, gilt title, (Rel. circa 1880). COMPLETE SET OF 80 ENGRAVED PLANCHES BY GOYA (245 x 336 mm) on strong wove paper, captioned and numbered, mounted on tabs. Very fine proofs of the RARISSIVE VERY FIRST EDITION printed in sepia on vellum with the palmettes watermark of the initials J. G. O. (José Garcia Osenalde), with spelling mistakes in some captions corrected in the second edition in 1892. Inspired by events during the 1808-1814 war (Napoleonic invasion of Spain) and the Madrid famine of 1811-1812, these scenes were engraved between 1810 and 1820 by Goya (1748-1828), but - too provocative, too political - the "Disasters" were not published in full until 1863, posthumously. Goya's son had kept the copperplates until his death in 1854, then the Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando acquired them in 1862 and had them published the following year by Laurenciano Potenciano's workshop. A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE, with large margins and remarkable freshness, without stains or foxing. Exceptional and very rare. Loÿs Delteil 120 to 199; Harris, "Goya: Engravings and Lithographs", cat. 1b. 121 to 200.