L'arquebusade ('firing squad'): P.14827-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

L'arquebusade ('firing squad')
Les Misères et les Malheurs de la Guerre

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Callot, Jacques (After)

Entities

Description

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.