Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. Sad Forebodings of What is Going to Happen, plate one from The Disasters of War. 1814–1820. Spain. Etching, burin, drypoint and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges The lone figure kneeling in a garden evokes Christ in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion. Ill-defined chaos swirls in the dark background, as the man’s outstretched arms signal his apprehension of and abandonment to the unknown future.

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