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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

What More Can Be Done?, plate 33 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863
Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
14 × 18.6 cm (5.5 × 7.3 in)

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The very limits of cruelty are on display in this scene, which depicts an act of sheer brutality and contempt for humanity.

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