Figures climbing on a lying giant

See People in sacks.

Drawing traditionally ascribed to the series of preparatory drawings for the Disparates, on the basis of its technical and compositional similarity and the paper used. However, it does not correspond to any of the prints in the engraved series.

A gigantic figure lies across the composition, leaning against a rise in the ground. A multitude of tiny figures have taken it for a hill. They use a ladder to climb up its back and climb up its legs. One of these tiny creatures stands on its crown, with an air of victory. There is a regret in the preliminary drawing, executed in sanguine, above the colossus's knees, as if Goya had depicted him with his legs more bent, on which the faint outlines of other tiny figures can be seen.

The giant prisoner's face is brightly lit and, despite his situation, he wears a malicious smile. This feature distinguishes it from other tormented depictions of giants and giants in Goya's works on paper, which he used on several occasions. This is the case of the drawing Great Sleeping Colossus or the aquatint The Colossus. Pierre Gassier alludes to a recurring reference: the story of the country of Lilliput narrated in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).