Artist Francisco Goya, Spanish, 1746-1828
Title
  • Origin of the Harpoons or Banderillas
  • Origen de los arpones o banderillas (alternate title)
  • La Tauromaquia | Bullfighting (series title)
  • La Tauromaquia, Plate 7 (alternate title)
Date 1816
Medium etching, burnished aquatint, and burin printed in brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 9 5/8 × 13 7/8 inches (24.4 × 35.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 16 5/8 inches (30.2 × 42.2 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb
Accession Number 45.42
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, upper right: 7
Inscribed, in pencil, lower right edge of sheet: 8 7/8 X 12 1/2
Anna Scripps Whitcomb;
1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)