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.

Date:
12 December 1812
Reference:
43194i

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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