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The correspondence of Spanish painter Francisco Goya is full of doodles (including Goya's caricaturesque self-portrait) and is often said to be scatological and obscene (in the words of the Pimlico edition "witty, passionate, business like, amusing and occasionally, obscene"). Generally held is that the highlight are those letters to his friend Martin Zapater.

Kenneth Clark in The Romantic Rebellion remarked (p. 95) that "[Goya's] letters give no sign of melancholia: they are full of fight, of high spirits, even, when he was over eighty."

One of the most enigmatic letters is one by Martin Zapater, in which, according to Goya: A life in Letters, Zapater supposedly had traced his own erect penis:

"In the winter of 1790 he sent Goya a drawing on which he had traced his own erect penis, which Goya praises extravagantly and very licentiously, wishing that it could be exhibited to the public so that 'the lady he fits best can get to keep him.'"[1]

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