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

This is Worse, plate 37 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Spanish, 1746-1828

Spain

Ever-increasing violence is on display in this horrific scene. A trial proof of this print bears the inscription, “The one at Chinchón,” suggesting that the artist witnessed this scene of human barbarity.

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

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