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The world-exclusive exhibition Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum features more than 160 works on paper by Francisco Goya (1746 – 1828), celebrating the artist’s extraordinary draughtsmanship and imagination.

Francisco Goya. What idiocy to decide their destinies in infancy! 1814–23. Album C, 13, brush and washes of carbon ink and light grey-brown ink. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Francisco Goya. Poverty 1812–20. Album F, 22, brush and iron gall, grey-brown and light grey ink washes. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Francisco Goya. The fifth [Burlesque vision] 1814–23. Album C, 43, brush and carbon ink wash. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Francisco Goya. Challenges: On guard! 1812–20. Album F, 11, brush and iron gall and grey-brown ink washes over traces of pigment. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Francisco Goya. They put a gag on her because she talked. And struck her in the face. I saw her, Orosia Moreno, in Zaragoza. For knowing how to make mice. 1814–23. Album C, 87 brush and iron gall and grey-brown ink washes over traces of black chalk. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Francisco Goya. Divine Liberty 1814–23. Album C, 115, brush and washes of carbon, iron gall, and grey-brown ink over traces of black chalk. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

Francisco Goya. Phantom dancing with castanets 1824–28. Album H (Bordeaux Album II), 61, black crayon. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Francisco Goya. Bad dream 1824–28. Album G (Bordeaux Album I), 12, black crayon. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Francisco Goya. They carried her off! c. 1797, preparatory drawing for Los Caprichos, plate 8, red ink wash over traces of black chalk. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Francisco Goya. Merry caricature 1796–97. Album B (Madrid Album), 63, preliminary drawing for Los Caprichos, plate 13, brush and carbon ink wash. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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