This is Worse, plate 37 from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
1812/15, published 1863
- Medium
- Etching, lavis and drypoint on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.9 × 18.5 cm (5 1/2 × 7 5/16 in.); Plate: 15.3 × 20.8 cm (6 1/16 × 8 1/4 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
Ever-increasing violence is on display in this horrific scene. A trial proof of this print bears the inscription, “The one at Chinchón,” suggesting that the artist witnessed this scene of human barbarity.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
