About this artwork
Inscribed: The ever-watchful eye of divine Astraea [Justice] completely banishes mourning from a region when, holding the sword and scales in her hands, she judges and punishes the inhuman thief who lies in wait for peasants, murders them and toys with them, then becomes himself the plaything of the wheel.
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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 Wheel, plate fourteen 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 × 18.6 cm (3 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 12 × 22.2 cm (4 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Fund
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Reference Number
- 1936.350
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/23121/manifest.json