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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A Moor Caught by the Bull in the Ring, plate 8 from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816
Etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory laid paper
20.4 × 31.7 cm (8 × 12.5 in)

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