They Don't Like it (No quiren), plate number 9; from the series The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra)

Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

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1810

Etching, burnished aquatint, and drypoint on paper

Harris II.129 (first edition, before correction of inscription to "quire")

Plate: 5 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (14 × 19.7 cm)

Sheet: 9 3/4 × 16 1/2 in. (24.8 × 41.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher H. McDowell, Class of 1945

PR.969.41

Geography

Place Made: Spain, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

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Goya’s series chronicled both the abuses of the French soldiers and the Spanish resistance to the war. In these three prints, the artist records moments of opposition by civilians, returning agency and action to the conquered people. While one older woman in Plate 9 prepares to surprise a soldier with her bared knife, other Spaniards enact their revenge on the dead bodies of the invaders. Dragged, kicked, and stabbed, the fallen foreigners become a focus for local anger and desperation. With their faces impassive or seemingly hollowed out by the ongoing horrors of the conflict, the avenging Spaniards in these images appear to derive little satisfaction from their vengeance. The grim sensibility is heightened by the dark tones of the prints. One of Goya’s titles suggests sympathy with the civilians, proclaiming: He deserved it.

From the 2023 exhibition Recording War: Images of Violence 1500 – 1900, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming

Course History

FILM 47, From The Fall of the Wall to 9-11: Understanding the New World Disorder, Mark Williams, James Nachtwey, Spring 2013

Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke 1, Summer 2023

Studio Art 27.01/28.01/74.01, Printmaking I/II/III, Josh Dannin, Summer 2024

Exhibition History

Learning About Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-December 11, 1988.

Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500-1900, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 20-August 20, 2023.

The Image Impressed, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-July 31, 1985.

The Napoleonic Era, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, and the Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 29-September 3, 1979.

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