L'arquebusade ('firing squad') Les Misères et les Malheurs de la Guerre
Printmaker:
Unknown
Draughtsman:
Callot, Jacques
(After)
Etching on laid paper. A copy in reverse after no. 12, _L'arquebusade_ ('firing squad') of Jacques Callot's series of 18 etchings known as _Les Misères et les Malheurs de la Guerre_ (1633). A blindfolded soldier tied to a wooden post is being shot at by a firing squad standing on the right. The bodies of executed men lie on the ground to the right of the post. A soldier's encampment is seen in the background on the left. Inscribed on the plate at lower right: 'Callot inv.'. An inscription in ink in the margin below: 'By Cooper after Callot.'. An inscription in graphite (probably written by Eric Chamberlain or Leonard Holder) on the sheet of card upon which the print is laid down: 'copy in reverse / cf. L.1350'. This is a reference to the numbering given to this plate from _Les Misères ..._ in Lieure, J, _Jacques Callot, Catalogue De L'Oeuvre Grave_, 3 vols, Paris, Editions de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1927. The 'Cooper' referred to is possibly Robert Cooper (1795 fl-1836), who produced prints, mainly portraits and vignettes, for periodicals.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
after
AD 1633
Height 79mm (cut to platemark) x width 186mm (cut to platemark)
Accession number: P.14827-R
Primary reference Number: 225436
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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