Nanny’’s boy
1796-1797
Goya’s biting satire from his famous 'Los Caprichos' series shows a grown man dressed as a wet nurse, awkwardly carrying another slumped man on his back like an oversized infant. The carrier bites his fingers in anxiety, while a large basket sits nearby, hinting at a domestic scene gone absurd. This print mocks the 'mama’s boys' of 18th-century Spain—men who remained childish and dependent on women. Goya published this series of 80 prints in 1799 to lampoon the nobility, clergy, and social customs, but he quickly pulled them from sale fearing the Spanish Inquisition’s wrath.
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