About this artwork
The very limits of cruelty are on display in this scene, which depicts an act of sheer brutality and contempt for humanity.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
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Title
- What More Can Be Done?, plate 33 from The Disasters of War
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1812–1815
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Medium
- Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
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Dimensions
- Image: 14 × 18.6 cm (5 9/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Plate: 15.5 × 20.7 cm (6 1/8 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24 × 34 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of J. C. Cebrian
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Reference Number
- 1920.1338
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/124880/manifest.json