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Esto es lo peor! (This is the worst of all!); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 74 (one of the "caprichos enfáticos").

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1814–15; printed 1862
Medium/TechniqueEtching and burnisher; posthumous trial proof, mounted in a bound album
DimensionsPlatemark: 17.9 x 22 cm (7 1/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 25.6 x 34.8 cm (10 1/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Morton Godine and David R. Godine and by exchange from the bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number1973.732.74
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceCharles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi, April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased from R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1811-12; posthumous impression, 1862
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1811- 12; this set printed about 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer. (Sad forebodings of what is to happen); from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 1, mounted in a bound album
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1813-15; this set printed about 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1811-12, this set printed 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; whole series first published posthumously 1863