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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Appeals are in vain, plate 54 from The Disasters of War

1812/15, published 1863
Etching, lavis, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
12.7 × 17.7 cm (5 × 7 in)

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