Plate 20 from the 'Tauromaquia':The agility and audacity of Juanito Apiñani in [the ring] at Madrid.

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

16.4.2 ; 16.4.3; 16.4.4; are all on paper with No. 1 watermark. Under microscopic examination it is clear that the lines and aquatint are finer than in the impressions from the MMA complete set (21.19.1-33) printed on paper that appears to be uniformly Serra make, even when the watermark is not present.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.