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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Harvest of the dead, plate 63 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863
Etching and burnished aquatint on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
13 × 17.9 cm (5.1 × 7 in)

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