Plate 9 from "Los Caprichos": Tantalus (Tantalo)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Los Caprichos
Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
Artist bio: Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Spanish
Date: 1799
Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint
Dimensions: Plate: 8 1/16 × 5 7/8 in. (20.5 × 14.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 8 5/16 in. (29.4 × 21.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918
Accession year: 1918
Tags: Men|Women