Plate 9 from "Los Caprichos": Tantalus (Tantalo)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
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 3/16 × 5 7/8 in. (20.8 × 15 cm)
Sheet: 12 in. × 7 13/16 in. (30.5 × 19.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Walter E. Sachs, 1916
Accession year: 1916
Tags: Men|Women|Death