3-101-549 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Fuerte cosa es!, (That's tough!), Plate 31, "Los Desastres de la Guerra", c1810, (published 1863). Soldiers and bodies hanging from a tree - one man is preparing to rape a woman. 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. 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].