Cleveland Museum of Art
The Horrors of War: This is How it Happened
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- c. 1810–20
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 104440
From LinkedCulture
Goya etched this image knowing it might never be seen. Made in Spain around 1810 to 1820, this is plate 17 from his Disasters of War series, a work too dangerous to publish under the regimes of his time. A lone figure in white twists on the ground in desperate submission while armed figures press down from above, a sharp diagonal staircase cutting through the chaos. The caption reads simply "This is how it happened," Goya insisting this is not allegory but recorded truth.
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A group of people is crowded around a wooden structure, with one person kneeling on the floor.
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