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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

They Loose Dogs on the Bull, plate 25 from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816
Etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory laid paper
21 × 31.1 cm (8.3 × 12.2 in)

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