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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A Woman's Charity, plate 49 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863
Etching, lavis, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
13 × 18 cm (5.1 × 7.1 in)

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