Above, a bookseller is chained to the stake and burnt with books bound around his neck; below, the martyr John Calas, a French Protestant, is tortured on the wheel. Engraving with etching, 1812.

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12 December 1812
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43194i
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view Above, a bookseller is chained to the stake and burnt with books bound around his neck; below, the martyr John Calas, a French Protestant, is tortured on the wheel. Engraving with etching, 1812.

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Above, a bookseller is chained to the stake and burnt with books bound around his neck; below, the martyr John Calas, a French Protestant, is tortured on the wheel. Engraving with etching, 1812. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London (Paternoster Row) : Thomas Kelly, 12 December 1812.

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 29 x 18 cm

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A bookseller burnt with 2 bibles round his neck for selling them in his shop at Avignon in France. John Calas, a French Protestant broke on the wheel.

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Wellcome Collection 43194i

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