# Goya etches Los Desastres de la Guerra from about 1810 as a private anti-war plate cycle

Date: 1810

## The fact

From about 1810 [Goya](/people/francisco-goya) etched Los Desastres de la Guerra.

It is one event.

## Context

As required: separate production from later publication. Split 1863 delay/access.

Francisco Goya’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Production c. 1810–1820, not 1863 publication. Plates document occupation violence, famine, and aftermath. Making an anti-war file even unpublished is a humanitarian instrument with limited contemporary public; 1863 is the later door.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

British Museum Desastres holdings and Prado print history independently date etching to the 1810s, publication to 1863.

Official or archival record: British Museum collection (Goya prints) (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection; British Museum).

## Significance

Etching an anti-war cycle in occupied Spain is a humanitarian-record path even before public sale.

1810 is not 1863.

Etching an anti-war cycle in occupied Spain is a humanitarian-record path even before public sale.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1810s Desastres production. Not established: that 1810 already had an 1863 edition.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Francisco Goya.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Francisco Goya: https://factrail.ai/people/francisco-goya

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.museodelprado.es/en
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-disasters-make