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Swallow it, dog, plate 58 from Los Caprichos

Francisco Goya · 1797/99

Palette

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist

Francisco Goya
Spanish, 1746-1828

Date

1797/99

Type

Print

Medium

Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper

Size

Image: 19 × 12.5 cm (7 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.); Plate: 21.5 × 15.2 cm (8 1/2 × 6 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 20.7 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/16 in.)

Place

Spain

Period

18th century

Themes

Dogs · Birds

Main colour

White & cream · lightness 83, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules