{
  "description": "[quote]h5. The Consequences\nMade circa 1820\nEtching print and aquatint\nPart of the Disasters of War series[/quote]\n[quote]A man, perhaps a corpse, in the foreground, projected slightly foreshortened, is hovered over by a group of bats flying towards him. One of them perches on his chest and sucks his torso to feed on the blood. \nThis engraving should be considered a continuation of the previous one, no. 71, [i]Against the General Good[/i]. What is happening in this print is probably the result, symbolically represented, of the measures that the bat-eared scribe is writing. He could be writing the text on the taxes, perhaps ecclesiastical, which continued to increase the poverty of a society that was in abject poverty after the War of Independence.[/quote]"
}