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Goya en tiempos de guerra

Mena Marqués, Manuela B. (ed.); Francisco de Goya
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What we checked, and where to see itRCB-5924de95f0c0 · 11 photographs of this copy
Title page reads 'GOYA en tiempos de guerra', 'Edición a cargo de Manuela B. Mena Marqués', 'Madrid, 2008', 'MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO'
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Spine/rear board carry 'MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO' and 1808-2008 commemorative logo
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Exhibition catalogue tied to the 2008 bicentenary (Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales)
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No number line or printing statement visible on the shown pages
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Flaws, each one named
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Light edge/handling wear to spine ends visible in photo 2
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Minor rubbing at spine head/tail corner
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This copy
First edition

What a true first shows: This exhibition catalogue was published for the 2008 Prado show; it appears in a single first edition. No number line or later-printing statement is present.

Nearly 200 works — paintings, drawings, and prints

Extended treatment of The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808, both cleaned and restored for this exhibition

Large selection from The Disasters of War, including working proofs and preparatory drawings

Full provenance and bibliography for each catalogue entry

Technical and conservation findings on recently studied works

Bibliography (pp. 511–521) and complete index

Loans from the Prado, the Louvre, the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and private collections.

Edited by Manuela B. Mena Marqués, the Prado's Chief Curator of 18th-Century Painting and Goya, with essays and catalogue texts by José Luis Díez, Juan J. Luna, José Manuel de la Mano, José Manuel Matilla, Gudrun Maurer, Janis Tomlinson, and Juliet Wilson-Bareau.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.