And These Too 18th-19th century

Curator: Here we have Francisco Goya's "And These Too," an etching currently residing at the Harvard Art Museums. It's intensely haunting, wouldn't you agree? Editor: Haunting, yes, but also strangely intimate. It's like peering into a shared nightmare, the kind born from famine, war, or both. What exactly are we looking at? Curator: Goya created this as part of his Disasters of War series. He used etching, a process involving acid to cut lines into a metal plate, which then holds ink for printing. Editor: Knowing it's an etching gives the darkness a tactile quality. You feel the grit and the struggle inherent in the making of the image, mirroring the subject. Curator: Precisely. The starkness underscores the reality of suffering, a visual record of a society broken. Editor: It reminds us that art, even in its darkest form, can be a powerful form of witness.