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A work made of etching, lavis, drypoint, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges.

What More Can Be Done?, plate 33 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Spanish, 1746-1828

Spain

The very limits of cruelty are on display in this scene, which depicts an act of sheer brutality and contempt for humanity.

Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges

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