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Description: | RH, volume s. on plate b.r. "Ifrael ex. Cum Privil. Reg."; inscr. on plate b. l. "Ceux qui pour obeir a leur mauvais Genie / Manquent a leur devoir, ufent de tyrannie,"; inscr on plate b. c. "Ne fe plaifent qu'au mal violent la raifon; / Et dont les actions pleines de trahifon"; inscr. on plate b. r. "Produifent dans le Camp mil fanglans vacarmes / Sont ainfi caftiez, et pafsez, par les armes. 12" AFTER CALLOT, Jacques; (French; 1592-1635) CRE SCHENK, Leonardus; (Dutch; act. 1720-1746) numero 12 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:
"Those who in order to obey their evil genius / fail to do their duty, make use of tyranny, / and only enjoy the maltreatment of reason; / and whose actions full of betrayal / cause a thousand bloody rows in the camp, /are punished this way, and sifted (passe aux armes) " 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: | SHOOTING : PUNISHMENT : WAR : FIRE : HORSE : SOLDIER : DOG : CAMP : TOWN : 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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