Maimed soldiers dragging themselves to a hospital. Etching, 1730, after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

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

Some of the dishevelled soldiers have no legs, others move with the aid of crutches

[Amsterdam] : Leonardus Schenk, [1730]

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

Voyez que c'est du monde et combien de hazars ... Israel ex. cum privil Lettering continues in French underneath the print describing the event in verse Translation of the poem: See how the world goes, and how many misfortunes constantly pursue the children of the god Mars. Some, crippled, drag themselves along the ground. Others, more fortunate, receive promotion in war. Some die on gallows by a fatal blow, and others go from the camp to the hospital Bears number bottom right : 15

Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot, 8 vols, Paris 1924-1927, no. 1353

Wellcome Collection 44141i