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The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid

The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at Madrid
(El esforzado Rendon picando un toro, de cuya suerte murió en la plaza de Madrid)
 (c. 1815-1816); published 1816
plate 28 from La Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting) series (c. 1815–16), published 1816

Medium
etching, burnished aquatint and burin
Measurements
20.9 × 31.4 cm (image) 25.0 × 35.3 cm (plate) 26.7 × 37.1 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Madrid, Spain
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Harris 231.III.1
Edition
1st edition
Printing/Publishing
published by Goya, Madrid
Inscription
printed in ink u.r.: 28
inscribed in plate l.r.: Goya
inscribed in pencil u.r.: E98
stamped in red ink l.l.: CLR (Lugt 595: Rutherston)
stamped in blue ink on reverse c.: PUBLIC LIBRARY OF VICTORIA
Accession Number
1998.255.28
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund, 1919
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display

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