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Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)|Gazette des Beaux-Arts

'The custody is as barbarous as the crime' (Tan bárbara la seguridad como el delito)

ca. 1815 (published after 1867)
Etching, burin
11 × 8.8 cm (4.3 × 3.5 in)

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