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Ya no hay tiempo, (There is no more time), Plate 19, "Los Desastres de la Guerra", c1810, (published 1863). Mamluk soldiers threaten a group of Spaniards. One has been already been killed. Another is about to be murdered with a sword, but the woman in the centre has grabbed hold of the Mamluk's hand as she faces another of the attackers. In the background, another woman has been seized by a third Turkish soldier. But the Mamluk who has his back turned to us is raising his hands as if to say "There is no more time" - a lucky escape. Although Goya did not make known his intention when creating the plates (between 1810 and 1815), art historians see them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, the subsequent cruel war that ended in Spanish victory in the Peninsular War of 1808-1814, and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814. The prints were not published until 35 years after Goya's death, probably because only then was it considered politically safe to do so. From "Los Desastres de la Guerra: colección de ochenta láminas inventadas y grabadas al agua fuerte por Don Francisco de Goya", (The Disasters of War: collection of eighty plates made and etched by Don Francisco de Goya), [Madrid, 1863].