This Is What You Were Born For, Disasters of War plate 12

A small etching shows a figure in dark clothing bent over the ground at left, reaching toward a heap of fallen bodies sprawled across a grassy slope. Soft wash shading and fine hatching render a cloudy sky above and a bare hillside.

Artist

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Date

1810/12, published 1863

Medium

Etching, lavis, drypoint and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1200 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of J. C. Cebrian