The burning of criminal soldiers on the stake. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

  • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.
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[1730]
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44139i
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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

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[Amsterdam] : Leonardus Schenk, [1730]

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 7.4 x 18.5 cm

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Ces enemis du ciel qui pechent mil fois contre les saints decrets et les divines loix ... Israel ex cum privil reg Lettering continues in French underneath the print describing the event in verse Translation of the poem: Those enemies of heaven, who a thousand times sin against the holy decrees and divine laws, glory in spitefully and destroying the temples of the True God with idolatrous hand, but as punishment for burning them, are themselves finally sacrificed to the flames Bears number bottom right : 13

References note

Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot, 8 vols, Paris 1924-1927, nos. 1339-1356

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Wellcome Collection 44139i

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