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If two to one, stuff your arse with straw
If two to one, stuff your arse with straw

If two to one, stuff your arse with straw

Original Language TitleDos a Uno, meten la Paja en el Culo
Former TitleWho'd Be a Soldier
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Daten.d.
MediumAquatint
DimensionsPlate: 8 1/2 × 12 7/8 inches (21.59 × 32.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-144
On View
Not on view
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Exhibition History

Exhibition, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1952, no cat.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by May 19, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: no. 266, pp. 198, 208, (repro.), as [Dos a uno, meten la Paja en el culo] If two to one, stuff your arse with straw; 2: no. 266, p. 402, (repro.), as Four Additional Plates Prepared for the Proverbios Series but Unpublished until the Late Nineteenth Century: [Dos a uno, meten la Paja en el culo] If two to one, stuff your arse with straw; [Disparate conocido] Well-known folly.

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1601, pp. 309, 322, 325-26, (repro.), as Disparate Conocido (Well-known Folly).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 19, p. 194, (repro.), as Well-known fantasy.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 314, as Additional plates for Los Proverbios: Dos a Uno, meten la Paja en el Culo (If two to one, stuff your arse with straw).

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