Francisco Goya

Plate 55 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'The worst is to beg' (Lo peor es pedir)

1811–12 (published 1863)

Dating

Approximate

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Etching, lavis, burnisher

Dimensions

Plate: 6 1/8 × 13/16 in. (15.6 × 2 cm) Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 9/16 in. (25.3 × 34.5 cm)

Collection no.

22.60.25(55)

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Francisco Goya. Plate 55 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'The worst is to beg' (Lo peor es pedir). Francisco Goya; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.