This Is How It Happened (Así sucedió.)
Disasters of War 47
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
1811–1812
Medium/TechniqueEtching and aquatint with burnishing (working proof)
DimensionsPlatemark: 15.6 x 20.9 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.9 x 32 cm (9 x 12 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.9 x 32 cm (9 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line1951 Purchase Fund
Accession number51.1671
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Provenance1863, sold by Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818–d. 1878), Keir House, Scotland; 1878, by inheritance to his son, Brigadier General Archibald Stirling (b. 1867–d. 1931), Keir House; 1931, by inheritance to his son, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph Stirling (b. 1911–d. 1983), Keir House; September 13, 1951, sold by William Joseph Stirling, through Colnaghi & Co. and Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)
![No se puede mirar. (One can't look.); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 26.](/internal/media/dispatcher/1307354/thumbnail)
![Con razon ó sin ella. (Rightly or Wrongly); from Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos (Fatal Consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte. And other emphatic caprices [Disasters of War], plate 2](/internal/media/dispatcher/743866/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1811-1812, published 1863
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1816-19
![El sueño de la razon produce monstruos. (The sleep [or "dream"] of reason produces monsters); Caprichos 43](/internal/media/dispatcher/1307370/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1797–1798
![Y son fieras. (And they are wild beasts!); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 5.](/internal/media/dispatcher/743868/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1811-12
![Tampoco. (Nor this.); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 36.](/internal/media/dispatcher/1307357/thumbnail)
![No hay que dar voces. (It's no use crying out); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 58.](/internal/media/dispatcher/743948/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1812–14
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1816–1819
