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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

What is the Use of a Cup?, plate 59 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863
Etching, burnished aquatint and lavis on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
12.7 × 18 cm (5 × 7.1 in)

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