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Description: | RH, volume s. on plate b.r. "Ifrael excud. Cum Privil. Reg."; inscr. on plate b. l. " Ce n'eft pas fans raifon que les grands Cappitaines / Comme bien aduifez, ont invente ces peines"; inscr on plate b. c. "les faineants, et les Blafphemateurs / Traiftres a leur devoir, querelleux, et menteurs"; inscr on plate b. r. "De qui les actions par le vice aveuglees / Rendent celles dautruy lacher et defreglees 10". AFTER CALLOT, Jacques; (French; 1592-1635) CRE SCHENK, Leonardus; (Dutch; act. 1720-1746) numero 10 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:
"This is not without reason that the great captains / having thought about it, invented these punishments / against the lazy, and the Blaspheming, / betraying their duties, quarrelsome, and liar, / whose actions, blinded by vice, / make the other's careless and inaccurate. "
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: | TOWN PLACE : PUNISHMENT : WAR : CHURCH : PRISONNER : EXECUTION : SOLDIER : 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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