About this artwork
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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jacques Callot
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Title
- The Strappado, plate ten from The Miseries of War
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Published 1633
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Medium
- Etching on paper
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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.)
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Credit Line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Fund
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Reference Number
- 1936.346
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/23109/manifest.json