The Calcografía Nacional (National Engraving Museum), which forms part of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, was created in 1789 to address major engraving projects arising within the framework of the illustrated policy. It brings together an extraordinary set of etched plates by the leading Spanish artists, forming one of the largest and best collections of engraving bases worldwide.

Its main treasures are the copper plates etched by Francisco de Goya, masterpieces in the universal history of engraving, as well as the most important collection of chalcographic etched plates in Spain, and the  Antonio Correa Collection, acquired by the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts for the National Engraving Museum in 1999, which is the most important collection of Spanish engravings brought together by a private individual in the second half of the 20th century.