A stage set with table curtains surrounded by soldiers, armoury and drums; representing war. Etching with engraving after Jacques Callot, 1633.
- Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.
- Date:
- [1730]
- Reference:
- 44105i
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The suite of eighteen prints entitled "Miseries and misfortunes of war" (Les misères et les malheurs de la guerre) in which soldiers are shown fighting, raping and pillaging and some are subsequently punished or gravely wounded and only few are rewarded for victory, was published by Callot's friend Israël Henriet in 1633
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : Leonardus Schenk, [1730]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with engraving ; sheet 8.8 x 18.8 cm
Lettering
De droeve ellendigheden van den oorloogh seer aerdigh en konstigh afgebeeldt door Jacques Callot Loreyns edelman en in druck uytgegeven door Gerret van Schagen. Leon Schenk excudit
References note
J. Lieure, Jacques Callot, 8 vols, Paris 1924-1927, nos. 1339-1356
Reference
Wellcome Collection 44105i
Reproduction note
The frontispiece published by Schenk is a later edition of the frontispiece by Gerrit Lucasz van Schagen using the original plates by Jacques Callot (published by Henriet Israel in 1633) translating the French title "Les misères et les malheurs de la guerre" into Dutch and adding his name under those of Callot and Gerrit van Schagen
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