IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225436 accession number: P.14827-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225436 TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1633 - 1633 creation date earliest: 1633 creation date latest: 1633 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Callot, Jacques