Palenque de los moros hecho con burros para defenderse del toro embolado (The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns have been tipped with balls), plate 17 from "La Tauromaquia" (The Bullfight)

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Photograph by John Bentham.
Palenque de los moros hecho con burros para defenderse del toro embolado (The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns have been tipped with balls), plate 17 from "La Tauromaquia" (The Bullfight)
Photograph by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (Francisco Goya, Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1815, first published 1816
MediumEtching and aquatint on paper
DimensionsComposition: 7 13/16 × 12 1/4 in. (19.8 × 31.1 cm) Plate: 9 9/16 × 13 7/8 in. (24.3 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 12 7/8 × 19 15/16 in. (32.7 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Carnegie Corporation
Object number1928.8
On view
DescriptionMoorish barrier of donkeys for protecting from the angry bull. Image of four figures attacking a bull (center foreground) with spears. Included in the image are three wounded donkey's.
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Alternate Titles La Tauromaquia
Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).

2005
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. Hamilton Collects, "A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection," September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat.).
Provenance 1928: Hamilton College (James Library), by gift of Carnegie Corporation.
Markings Watermark: unknown watermark visible on verso at upper right.
Inscribed "Goya" at upper right in margin in pencil; "17" at upper right in pencil; "Planche de la Tauromachia - E. Forte originale de Goya / sp. 18th C." at lower right in pencil; "Goya" on verso at upper right in pencil; "21" at lower left in pencil.
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