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Description: | RH, volume s. on plate b.r. "Ifrael excud.. Cum Privil. Reg."; inscr. on plate b. l. "Apres plufieurs excez indignement commis / Par ces gens de neant de la gloire ennemi"; inscr on plate b.c. "On les cherche par tout, avec beaucouo de peine, / Et le Prevoft du camp au quartier les ramene,"; inscr on plate b. r. "Affin dy recevoir comme ils l'ont merite, / Un chaftiment conforme a leur temerite. 9" AFTER CALLOT, Jacques; (French; 1592-1635) CRE SCHENK, Leonardus; (Dutch; act. 1720-1746) numero 9 in a series of 18 prints illustrating war in general, with particular emphasis on the vicissitudes of the common soldier. The translation of its inscriptions is:
"After several excesses shamefully perpetrated / By those worthless persons, ennemies of glory, /They are researched every where, with tremendous trouble, / And the Camp Provost brings them back to the quartier, / So that they receive, as they deserve it, /A punishment corresponding to their foolhardiness." This is a copy by SCHENK, Leornadus, etched in the 18th century. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | TREE : CRIMINAL : WAR : CAPTURE : ATTACK : SOLDIER : GUN : FARM : SEEK OUT : MISERY OF WAR : SET : VOLUME : COPY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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