The punishment of criminal soldiers on a scaffold-like contraption called "Strappado". Etching 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

Strappado: the punishment of drawing up an offender by a rope attached to his arms and letting him fall almost to the ground so that his shoulder-joints are broken

[Amsterdam] : Leonardus Schenk, [1730]

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

C'est ne pas sans raison que les grands cappitaines comme bien advisez ont invente ces peines ... Israel excud. cum privil. regis Lettering continues in French underneath the print describing the event in verse Translation of the poem: It is not without cause that great captains have well-advisedly invented these punishments for idlers, blasphemers, traitors to duty, quarrelers and liars, whose actions, blinded by vice, make those of others slack and irregular, Bears number bottom right : 10

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

Wellcome Collection 44131i