I Saw It (Yo lo vi)

1810, published 1863

Etching, drypoint and burin; plate 15.8 × 23.5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Townspeople stream away from a hilltop town while a woman hauls a small child along by the arm. Whatever they are fleeing lies outside the frame.

Tomlinson (Berkeley) notes that the 1863 edition followed the order of the Ceán Bermúdez album of 85 proofs, now in the British Museum.
Look at the two men at left racing ahead, one clutching a bundle, while women and children follow behind.
Fine lines alone build the figures; the pale sky and hillside are left almost bare.
The caption claims eyewitness authority. Tomlinson (Yale University Art Gallery talk, 2016) thinks the artist probably imagined most scenes, though he did see the Madrid famine of 1811–12.
Entered the Met in the same 1951 gift as plate 15.