Plate 25 from ‘The Disasters of War’ (Los Desastres de la Guerra): ‘These too.’ (Tambien estos.)

Description

Bodies cluster together in These Too, adding another group to the suffering examined in Goya’s Disasters of War. The title sounds like a continuation of something already witnessed, drawing attention to how the consequences of conflict spread from one person to another. Its quiet insistence asks the viewer to recognize lives beyond the count of a larger calamity.

Goya combines etching with drypoint and burin to make the scene tangible through varied marks. The work’s emotional force comes from its place within an accumulating record, where each image adds people rather than merely adding events. The phrase in the title keeps that recognition open, making this group both particular and inseparable from those suffering elsewhere.

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