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THE SPANISH SERIES
GOYA{ii}
THE SPANISH SERIES
EDITED BY ALBERT F. CALVERT
| Goya Toledo Madrid Seville Murillo Cordova El Greco Velazquez The Prado The Escorial Royal Palaces of Spain Spanish Arms and Armour Granada and the Alhambra Leon, Burgos, and Salamanca Catalonia, Valencia and Murcia Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila, and Zaragoza |
GOYA
AND WORKS BY ALBERT F.
CALVERT, WITH 612 RE-
PRODUCTIONSFROM HIS
PICTURES, ETCHINGS, AND
LITHOGRAPHS
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMVIII
To
THE MARQUIS OF COMILLAS
My dear Marquis,
I beg you to accept the dedication of this volume as a mark of thehigh value I place upon your friendship, and as a sincereexpression of my esteem for yourself as a patron of the arts, atrue philanthropist, and a lifelong worker in the interests ofSpanish greatness.
I am, my dear Marquis,
Your sincere and obliged,
ALBERT F. CALVERT.
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Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty
PREFACE
It has been said that in England everybody knows of Cervantes, but veryfew persons have more than a nodding acquaintance with Don Quixote,and Goya’s reputation in this country is even less securely founded. Thegreat Aragonese is indeed little more than a name to the general public,and his work is literally unknown. Two little books—Mr. W.Rothenstein’s Goya, now out of print, and a monograph by Mr. RichardMuther in the Langham Series—are the only volumes in English dealingexclusively with a painter who for more than half a century might havebeen described, with more aptness than that with which the words wereapplied to Zurbarán, as ‘A