The Hanging, plate eleven from The Miseries of War
Jacques Callot
1633
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8.2 × 18.5 cm (3 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 12 × 22.3 cm (4 3/4 × 8 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Inscribed: Finally these infamous and abandoned thieves, hanging from this tree like wretched fruit, show that crime (horrible and black species) is itself the instrument of shame and vengeance, and that it is the fate of corrupt men to experience the justice of Heaven sooner or later.
