Nobody knows himself

Francisco Goya
Spain
30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

Nobody knows himself
plate 6, from the series Los Caprichos (The Caprices)
1797-98; published 1799
etching, burnished aquatint on paper
Place made
Madrid
Medium
etching, burnished aquatint on paper
Dimensions
21.5 x 15.0 cm (plate)
31.2 x 21.9 cm (sheet)
18.9 x 10.9 cm (image)
Credit line
South Australian Government Grant 1980
Accession number
807G24
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    A bad night

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G54
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    A gift for the master

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G65
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    All will fall

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G37
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    And his house is on fire

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G36
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    And so was his grandfather

    1797-98; published 1799
    aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G57
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    And still they don't go!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G77
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Because she was susceptible

    1797-98; published 1799
    aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G50
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Be quick, they are waking up

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G66
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Blow

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G87
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Bravissimo!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G56
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Can't anyone untie (annul) us?

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G73
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Correction

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G64
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Devout profession

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G88
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Don't scream, stupid

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G84
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Even thus he cannot make her out

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G25
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Francisco Goya y Lucientes, painter

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper, mounted on paper support
    Accession no: 807G18
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    God forgive her: and it was her mother

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G34
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Here comes the bogey-man

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G21
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Hobgoblins

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G67
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    How they pluck her!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G39
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Hush

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G46
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It is better to be lazy

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G86
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It is nicely stretched

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G35
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It is time

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G53
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It is time

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 686G14
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Lads making ready

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G29
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Look how solemn they are!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G81
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Love and death

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G28
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Might not the pupil know more?

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G55
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Nanny's boy

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G22
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Neither more nor less

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G59
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Nobody knows himself

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G24
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    No one has seen us

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G61
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Nothing could be done about it

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G42
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Of what ill will he die?

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G58
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Out hunting for teeth

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G30
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Poor little girls!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G40
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    She fleeces him

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 554G5
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    She prays for her

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G49
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Sleep overcomes them

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G52
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Swallow it, dog

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G76
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Tantalus

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G27
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    That certainly is being able to read

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G47
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The Chinchillas

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G68
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The filiation

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G75
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    There is plenty to suck

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G63
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    There they go plucked (ie fleeced)

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G38
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The shamefaced one

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G72
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The sleep of reason produces monsters

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G19
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They are hot

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G31
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They carried her off !

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G26
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They have flown

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G79
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They say yes and give their hand to the first comer

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G20
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They spin finely

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G62
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They've already got a seat

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G44
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Those specks of dust

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G41
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    To rise and to fall

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G74
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    To the Count Palatine or Count of the Palate

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G51
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Trials

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G78
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Two of a kind

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G23
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Wait till you've been anointed

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G85
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    What a golden beak!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G71
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    What a sacrifice!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G32
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    What a tailor can do!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G70
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    What one does to another

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G69
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    When day breaks we will be off

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G89
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Where is mother going?

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G83
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Which of them is the more overcome?

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G45
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Who would have thought it!

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G80
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Why hide them?

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G48
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Wonderful advice

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 807G33
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Yes he broke the pot

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G43
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    You understand?... well, as I say... eh! Look out! otherwise...

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 807G82
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    You who cannot

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G60
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    You will not escape

    1797-98; published 1799
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 807G90