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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A Spanish mounted knight in the ring breaking short spears without the help of assistants, plate 13 from The Art of Bullfighting

1814/16, published 1816
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
20.2 × 30.6 cm (8 × 12 in)

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