National Calcography

The National Chalcography, which is part of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, was created in 1789 to undertake important engraving projects arising within the framework of enlightened policy. It brings together an extraordinary collection of plates engraved by the most outstanding Spanish artists, forming one of the largest and finest collections of copperplate engravings in the world. Its main treasure is the copper plates etched by Francisco de Goya, masterpieces of the universal history of printmaking, as well as the most important collection of copperplate engravings in Spain and the Antonio Correa Collection, acquired by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando for the National Chalcography in 1999, which constitutes the most important collection of Spanish prints assembled by a private individual in the second half of the 20th century. New Goya Cabinet: This innovative space exhibits for the first time and on a permanent basis the 213 copper plates created for the series of engravings The Disasters of War, Tauromaquia, Disparates, and Caprichos, which are housed in the National Chalcography. National. Due to their high significance and importance, all of Goya's graphic series are displayed in the new Francisco de Goya Cabinet, in their original copper appearance, after the electroplating applied to the plates since the mid-19th century was removed. In the autumn of 2023, the transformation of the Calcografía's temporary exhibition spaces into a new, permanent, and expanded gallery for this cabinet began, and was completed in March 2024.