Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

  • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.
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[1730]
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44140i
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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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L'oeil toujours surveillant de la divine Areé bannit entierement le dueil ... Israel ex. cum privil reg Lettering continues in French underneath the print describing the event in verse Translation of the poem: The ever-watchful eye of divine Astraea (Justice) completely banishes mourning from a region when, holding the sword and scales in her hands, she judges and punishes the inhuman thief who awaits passersby in ambush, wounds them and toys with them, then becomes himself the plaything of a wheel Bears number bottom right : 14

References note

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44140i

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