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
Image credit
Photo: Stewart Adams

  • 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