The worst is to beg

Francisco Goya
Spain
30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

The worst is to beg
plate 55 from the series The Disasters of War
1810-15; published 1863
etching, lavis, burnishing on paper
Place made
Madrid
Medium
etching, lavis, burnishing on paper
Edition
1st ed. (b)
State
Harris (1968) 175 III first edition
Dimensions
15.5 x 20.4 cm (plate)
24.1 x 33.7 cm (sheet)
13.1 x 18.0 cm (image)
Credit line
South Australian Government Grant 1965
Accession number
6512G110
Signature and date
Signed l.l. "Goya". ("y" is in reverse). Not dated.
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • Reason and Folly: The Prints of Francisco Goya

    National Gallery of Victoria, 24 September 1998 – 7 December 1998

  • Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War

    Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, 22 August 1984 – 19 September 1984

  • The Disasters of War

    Newcastle Art Gallery, 9 July 1969 – 10 August 1969
  • [Book] Harris, Tomás. Goya. Engravings and lithographs.
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Against the common good

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G126
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    And they are like wild beasts

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 6512G60
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    And this too

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint or lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G100
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    An heroic feat! With dead men!

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 6512G94
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Appeals are in vain

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G109
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    A Woman's Charity

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G104
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Bitter to be present

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G68
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Cartloads to the cemetery

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G119
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Charity

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G82
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Charlatans' Show

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G130
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Cruel tale of woe!

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G103
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Even worse

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G77
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Everything is topsy-turvy

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G97
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Feline pantomime

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G128
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Harvest of the dead.

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 6512G118
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    He defends himself well.

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G133
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    He deserved it

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G84
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    He gets something out of it

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G95
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    I saw it

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G99
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It always happens

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 6512G63
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It's a hard step!

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G69
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It serves you right

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G61
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It's no use crying out

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G113
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    It will be the same

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished lavis on paper
    Accession no: 6512G76
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    May the cord break

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G132
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Neither do these

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G66
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Neither do they

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G65
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Nor this time

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G91
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Nothing. The event will tell.

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G124
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    On account of a knife

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G89
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    One can't look

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G81
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    One can't tell why

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G90
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Perhaps they are of another breed

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G116
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Rabble

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G83
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Ravages of war

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G85
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Rightly or wrongly

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G57
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Sad forebodings of what is going to happen

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, engraving, drypoint, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G56
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Strange devotion!

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G121
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Take care of them, and on to the next

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G75
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Thanks to the millet

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint on paper
    Accession no: 6512G106
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The beds of death

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G117
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The carnivorous vulture

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G131
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The consequences.

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching on paper
    Accession no: 6512G127
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The healthy and the sick

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G112
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    There is no one to help them

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G115
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    There isn't time now

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G74
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    There was nothing to be done and he died

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G108
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The same

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G58
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The same elsewhere

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G78
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    These too

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G80
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The women give courgage

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, lavis, drypoint, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G59
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    The worst is to beg

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G110
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They can still be of use

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G79
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They do not agree

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G72
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They do not arrive in time

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G107
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They do not know the way

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G125
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They don't like it

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G64
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They escape through the flames

    1810-15; published 1863
    Etching, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G96
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    They make use of them

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G71
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    This is bad

    1810-15; published 1863
    Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G101
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    This is how it happened

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G102
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    This is not less so

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G122
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    This is what you were born for

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G67
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    This is worse

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 6512G92
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    This too

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G98
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    To the cemetery

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 6512G111
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Truth has died

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G134
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Unhappy mother!

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint on paper
    Accession no: 6512G105
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    What is this hubbub?

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, aquatint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G120
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    What madness!

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, engraving on paper
    Accession no: 6512G123
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    What more can be done?

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G88
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    What's the use of a bowl?

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnished aquatint, lavis on paper
    Accession no: 6512G114
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Why?

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, lavis, drypoint, engraving, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G87
  • Francisco Goya 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828

    Will she rise again?

    1810-15; published 1863
    etching, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 6512G135