Rabble, plate 28 from The Disasters of War

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)

1814/20, published 1863

Medium
Etching, lavis, drypoint, burnishing and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Classification
Print
Dimensions
Image: 14.8 × 19.7 cm (5 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Plate: 17.5 × 22 cm (6 15/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 24 × 34 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
Culture
Spain
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line
Gift of J. C. Cebrian
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

About this work

Onlookers witness the brutal violation of a bound and hapless victim by the rabble.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0