National Galleries of Scotland | Licence: CC BY 4.0
National Galleries of Scotland | Licence: CC BY 4.0

Study for the Painting 'The Spanish Posada ...'

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Pencil and watercolour on paper

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National Galleries of Scotland

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Spain

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It depicts a council of war in a remote inn (‘Posada’). The central episode presents three priests (a Dominican, a monk from the Escorial and a Jesuit) plotting with two guerillas (one leaning over the monk’s shoulder and the other standing to the right).