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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

There Was Nothing to be Done and He Died, plate 53 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863
Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
12.9 × 17.5 cm (5.1 × 6.9 in)

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