And there's no help for it, plate 15 from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1810–1811
- Medium
- Etching, drypoint, burin, and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Dimensions
- Image: 12.9 × 15.5 cm (5 1/8 × 6 1/8 in.); Plate: 14 × 16.9 cm (5 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Sheet: 24 × 34 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
warprintprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
In this etching a line of tied-up victims is executed one by one by a faceless firing squad. The tips of gun barrels emerge from the far right, capturing the moment immediately preceding the spray of bullets that will kill the central figure. At his feet lies the mangled corpse of an earlier victim.
