GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
(b. 1746, Fuendetodos, d. 1828, Bordeaux)

Cartloads to the cemetery

1812-15
Etching and aquatint, 155 x 205 mm
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This is Plate 64 from the series The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra).

War is ravaging the country, the fields are left unfilled and in the city the people are starving, the poor first.