The recruitment and signing up of soldiers outside the town walls. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

  • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.
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[1730]
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44107i
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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

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam] : Leonardus Schenk, [1730]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; sheet 8.1 x 18.6 cm

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Lettering

Ce metal que Pluton dans ce veutis enferre ... Israel ex. Cum privilegio regis Lettering continues in French underneath the print describing the event in verse Translation of the poem: That metal which Pluto encloses within his veins, which at the same time causes peace and war, draws the soldier, without fear of danger, from the place of his birth to foreign lands, where, having embarked to follow the military, he must arm himself with virtue to combat vice Bears number bottom right : 2

Notes

On the same mount as no. 44105 (this catalogue)

References note

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44107i

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