The Custody is as Barbarous as the Crime
Plate: 4 1/8 × 3 5/16 inches (10.48 × 8.41 cm)
[No known exhibitions at this time]
Robert L. (b. 1952) and Barbara E. (née Klugman, b. 1958) Bloch, Shawnee Mission, KS, by January 23, 1985;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1985.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts 22 (1867): 196.
Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: no. 26, pp. 76, 78, 87, (repro.), as Tan bárbara la seguridad como el delito. (The custody is as barbarous as the crime); 2: no. 26, pp. 46-47, (repro.), as Tan bárbara la seguridad como el delito. (The custody is as barbarous as the crime). Little Prisoner.
Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 986, pp. 223, 257, 267, (repro.), as Tan barbara la seguridad como el delito.
Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 2, pp. 210, 214, (repro.), as The custody is as barbarous as the crime.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 314, as Los Desastres de la Guerra: Tan Barbara la Seguridad como El Delito (The custody is as barbarous as the crime), Little Prisoner.
