This is worse

Artist Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)

Titles

Plate 37 from The Disasters of War
Esto es peor

Dateca. 1810 (published 1863)

Mediumetching, lavis, and drypoint

DimensionsOverall: 9 13/16 x 13 5/16 in. (24.9 x 33.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert and Karen Hoehn

CultureSpanish

Inscribed"Esto es peor." printed in plate below image; number 37 printed in plate outside image u.l.; very faint number 2 (?) printed l.l. outside image; number 37 handwritten in plate outside image l.r.

PortfolioLos desastres de la guerra, first edition, published March 1863

Catalogue raisonnéHarris 157.III.1 (first edition, with letters); Blas & Matilla 2000, cat.no.37.

Object numberPC1999.01.37

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionNaked dead man with arm cut off impaled on tree trunk in foreground; one soldier in background pulling clothes off dead body at left; soldier in right background brandishing sword at a figure with back to us who appears to have hand raised in self defense

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