Five Etchings about Bullfighting are five plates of the series of 33 etching engravings made by Goya in 1815, and published in 1816. The etchings in question bear the titles: A Spanish Gentleman Kills a Bull after Having Lost his Horse (Plate 9, G 287); The Famous Martincho Whirling a Bull in the “Plaza” in Madrid (Plate 16, G 288); The Moors Put up a Barricade of Donkeys to Protect themselves Against the Struggling Bull (Plate 17, G 289); Pepe Illo Saluting the Bull (Plate 29, G 290); and Throwing Dogs to the Bull (Plate 25, G 291). The series was created at the time when Goya was cleared of suspicions of collaboration with the newly-expelled French occupiers, and his thematic might, to a certain extent, reflect his intention of reiterating his Hispanic roots.
— Unknown authorship, 1998
