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Los Caprichos
Series of 80 aquatint and etching prints by Francisco Goya, 1797-1799. Prado Museum, Madrid. Satirical plates attacking superstition, clerical corruption, and social hypocrisy. Plate 43 ('The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters') is the most widely reproduced single image.
Scholarly Significance
Los Caprichos anchors Goya's printmaking and the use of etching as a vehicle for political and social satire.