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Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the mayor of Torrejón
is an etching with burnished
aquatint
,
drypoint
and
burin
on paper by the Spanish painter and printmaker
Francisco Goya
. It is number 21 in a series of 35 etchings making up his
Tauromaquia
("art of bullfighting") series, which he produced between 1815 and 1816. The etching details an event from 15 June 1801 when a bull broke through barriers at a
bullfight
in Madrid, killing two people including the mayor of
Torrejón de Ardoz
. The plate has been described by art critic
Robert Hughes
as among the greatest of Goya's graphic output.
Etching:
Francisco Goya
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