The Strappado, plate ten from The Miseries of War
Jacques Callot
1633
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8.2 × 19.1 cm (3 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 11.9 × 23 cm (4 11/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Inscribed: 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 lax and lawless.
