# La Tauromaquia (1816) publicises bullfighting as a numbered print spectacle of wounding

Date: 1816

## The fact

In 1816 [Goya](/people/francisco-goya) issued La Tauromaquia as a public print series of the corrida. This Fact stores the wounding-as-spectacle, not the later museum teaching of the plates.

It is one event.

## Context

A print can document a popular sport and can train a gaze on animal and man wounded. Medium confidence.

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.

The 1816 print series stages the corrida as public visual sport of wounding. Analogical humanitarian-adjacent spectacle. Medium confidence. Later BM teaching is access elsewhere.
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

British Museum Tauromaquia holdings and Prado print history independently date the 1816 series.

Official or archival record: British Museum collection (Goya prints) (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection; British Museum).

## Significance

A numbered wounding spectacle is a humanitarian-adjacent path of medium confidence.

1816 is not 1810 Desastres production.

A numbered wounding spectacle is a humanitarian-adjacent path of medium confidence.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1816 Tauromaquia as a public print set. Not established: a unique injury series caused by plates.

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

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.museodelprado.es/en
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-tauromaquia-violence