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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
What a Tailor Can Do!/Lo que puede un sastre! (from Los Caprichos, plate 52)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

What a Tailor Can Do!/Lo que puede un sastre! (from Los Caprichos, plate 52)

Artist Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1796-1797
MediumEtching and aquatint
DimensionsMat: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Paper: 12 1/4 x 8 7/8 in., (31.1 x 22.5 cm,)
Sight: 8 1/2 x 6 in., (21.6 x 15.2 cm,)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. Alfred Hower
Object number1991.16
DescriptionA young woman kneels before what appears to be a person draped in a monk’s cowl but is actually a tree with outstretched branches. Figures in the background kneel and pray.