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.
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[1730]
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44105i
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A stage set with table curtains surrounded by soldiers, armoury and drums; representing war. Etching with engraving after Jacques Callot, 1633. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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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