And there's no help for it, plate 15 from The Disasters of War

Art Institute of Chicago

And there's no help for it, plate 15 from The Disasters of War

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Date
1810/11, published 1863
Medium
Etching, drypoint, burin, and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Culture
Spain
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

In this etching a line of tied-up victims is executed one by one by a faceless firing squad. The tips of gun barrels emerge from the far right, capturing the moment immediately preceding the spray of bullets that will kill the central figure. At his feet lies the mangled corpse of an earlier victim.

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Object type
AAT300041273

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