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This is Worse, plate 37 from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y LucientesLinkedCulture matchlcp-996a1e74ef53
- Date
- 1812/15, published 1863
- Medium
- Etching, lavis and drypoint on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 124884
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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.
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- Credit line
- Gift of J. C. Cebrian
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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