The Disasters of War The edition from which these

The edition from which these drawings were taken now commands high prices on the rare book market

books on fashion plates

but unfortunately in their original form they are far too long for children

An indispensable book for the professional or amateur magician

The Disasters of War The edition from which theseThe strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya's most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya's model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors was the Spanish insurrection of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine