# The 1799 Caprichos subscription is an elite-priced print object, not a cheap broadside

Date: 1799

## The fact

On 6 February 1799 Los Caprichos were advertised as a priced subscription set.

It is one event.

## Context

Satire can be democratic in content and exclusive in price. Split withdrawal-as-justice.

[Francisco Goya](/people/francisco-goya)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Diario de Madrid 6 February 1799 advertised the set at a subscription price beyond popular chapbooks. Satire for buyers who could pay. Inequality of access to critique is the path; the images later cheapened in museums.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Prado/Met print histories independently describe the 1799 advertisement and the set as a commercial print object.

Official or archival record: Museo Nacional del Prado (https://www.museodelprado.es/en; Museo Nacional del Prado).

## Significance

Elite pricing of political satire is an inequality-of-access path.

A subscription is not 1863 Desastres.

Elite pricing of political satire is an inequality-of-access path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 6 February 1799 priced Caprichos advertisement. Not established: a unique Gini of buyers.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Francisco Goya.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Francisco Goya: https://factrail.ai/people/francisco-goya

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/goya/hd_goya.htm
- https://www.museodelprado.es/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-caprichos-price