FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES - 1746-1828 FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES - 1746-1828, "Los proverbios", Los proverbios: coleccion de diez y ocho láminas inventadas y grabadas al agua fuerte /, por Don Francisco Goya. Publicala la R[ea]l Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando.- Madrid: R[ea]l Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1864.- 1 lithographic frontispiece, 18 engravings; 31x43 cm.- B. Together with: L'ART: revue hebdomadaire illustrée / direction générale et rédaction en chef Eugène Véron et Charles Tardieu; direction artistique Léon Gaucherel.- Troisième année, tome Ier. & tome II (tome VIII & IX de la collection), 1877.- Paris; London: A. Balue, 1877.- 2 vols. em 1: il.; 44 cm.- B. Complete set of first edition, there is no knowledge of a full set stamped on the artist's life. Includes the album published in 1864 by the Royal Academy of Noble Arts of San Fernando, soon after acquiring the respective plates, containing 18 proofs of the engravings hitherto known, numbered 1-18, a print run of 300 copies. It features a lithographed frontispiece with the watermark J. G. O. includes separators and cellophane apparently no contemporaries. The plates, engraved etching and aquatint, sometimes with touches of dry-point, have no date. To this 18 engravings are joined those other 4 wich plates were discovered some years later in the possession of the painter Eugenio Lucas, who came to be published by François Liénard in 1877 in the French magazine L'Art. The collation of the two volumes of the magazine is as follows: Troisième année, tome Ier (tome VIII de la collection): [4], 297, [2, 1 br.] p.: il., [19] engravings. Troisième année, tome II (tome IX de la collection): [4], 324 p.: il., [25] engravings. The unprecedented four prints by Goya, all included in the article titled Goya aquafortiste, written by Charles Yriarte, in Volume IX (troisième année, volume II), have the following titles: [19] Lluvia de toros = Pluie de Taureax (p. 6/7); [20] Otras leyes por el pueblo = Autres lois pour le peuple (p. 40/41); [21] ¡ Qué guerrero ! = Quel guerrier [p. 55/56]; [22] Una reina del circo = Une reine du Cirque [p. 82/83]. At the beginning of this article was also published a self-portrait of the artist, engraved by F. Milius. Print 18, and last in the album, a little tired, with slight traces of water in the outer margin and bottom. Occasional light spots or peaks of acidity. Binding simple, with leather spine, without engraving. The first three sheets of the magazine have some damage caused by tearing, but without lack of support. Moreover, the entire volume is very clean with only very slight acidity in the prints. Half-morocco binding of the period, with the corners slightly worn, with gilt initials H.L. surmounted by a Count´s crown at the head of the spine. Palau, 106 558 e 106 568 (79, 80, 81 e 82). Augusto L. Mayer (Francisco de Goya), p. 120-123 e 276-281 (V, nº 1 a 22). Tomás Harris (Goya: engravings and lithographs), p. 193-198 e fig. 248 a 269.