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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Why?, plate 32 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863
Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
13.6 × 19.1 cm (5.4 × 7.5 in)

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