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  • Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Russian sailors pillaging their own ship with the assistance of Chinese coolies. Colour woodcut by Hōsai, 1904.
  • Soldiers looting and pillaging an inn in the countryside after they refused to pay for their board and lodging. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A battle between Romans and the Germans at Trier: the Germans are returning on a bridge over the river Moselle after having attacked the camp of the Romans, when the Romans counterattack. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. van Veen, 1612.
  • An episode in the novel  Niccolò de' Lapi. by Massimo D'Azeglio: a massacre in a church during the Sack of Rome is interrupted by the arrival of the soldier of fortune Fanfulla da Lodi. Wood engraving by A. Centenari and G. Sabbatini after R. Venturi.
  • A boy of nine years is scourged in the marketplace and more atrocities are commited to the followers of the House of Orange by the cavalry. Etching by J. Luyken.
  • Achan is stoned to death for stealing the spoils of the fall of Jericho. Line engraving.

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