‘Now this is not the true nature of these good-hearted children. They think they are playing, but they have been taught a game in which they are pawns.’

Edition of 12. Plate 49 from the series The Caprichos. Inscribed in the plate top right: ’49’; titled in the plate lower center: ‘Hobgoblins.’.Numbered, signed, and dated in pencil.

The Caprichos, by Emily Lombardo, is a series of etchings which are in direct conversation and homage to Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos, 1799. Both reveal the dark underbelly of cultural movements which ultimately serve to divide society across economic, racial, political, religious, and gender lines. Lombardo brings these issues into contemporary light through a queer feminist lens.

This edition was published by Childs Gallery and printed at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk, CT) by printer Opal Ecker DeRuvo. Hahnemühle Copperplate Bright White paper and Portland Black ink where used for this edition.