Distribution of Rewards, plate eighteen from The Miseries of War
Jacques Callot
1633
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8.2 × 18.8 cm (3 1/4 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 12.1 × 22.6 cm (4 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
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Inscribed: This example of a grateful leader who punishes evil and rewards the good, should prick soldiers with the goad of honor, since all their happiness depends on virtue and they ordinarily receive from vice shame, scorn and the extreme penalty.
