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No hubo remedio. (Nothing could be done about it), plate 24 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799)
No hubo remedio. (Nothing could be done about it), plate 24 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799)

No hubo remedio. (Nothing could be done about it), plate 24 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799)

Artist/Maker (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Date1797–99
MediumEtching and burnished aquatint
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (19.1 × 13.3 cm)
Plate: 8 9/16 × 5 3/4 in. (21.7 × 14.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (31.1 × 21 cm)
Credit LineRichard Lee Ripin Art Purchase Fund
EditionPlate 24 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799)
PortfolioPlate 24 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799)
Object number2021.26.1
Status
Not on view
More Information
In this image of an auto-da-fé (an Inquisition ritual of public penance), a woman on a donkey wears a coroza (a tall, conical hat that identified victims of the Inquisition) and an iron collar. Onlookers smile grotesquely as she is escorted to her death by two constables on horseback.

The Inquisition was one of several entities that Goya targeted in Los Caprichos. He argued that it was a superstitious institution that continued to thrive thanks to the ignorance of an unquestioning populace that was blinded by an undue reverence for authority and tradition.
Exhibition History
Wit and Wisdom: Political and Social Satire in the Prints of Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 27, 2022 - December 23, 2022 )
What's in a Spell? Love Magic, Healing, and Punishment in the Early Modern Hispanic World
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 19, 2023 - December 12, 2023 )
Collections
  • European
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