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Description: | RH, volume s. on plate b.r. "Jac. Callot fecit"; inscr on plate b. c."Ifrael exc. 1633"; inscr. on plate b. l. " Voyez que c'eft du monde et combien de hazars / Perfecutent fans fin les enfants du Dieu Mars"; inscr on plate b.c. "Les uns eftropiez, fe treinent fur la terre / Les autres plus heureux f'efleuent a la guerre"; inscr on plate b.r. "Les uns fur un gibet meurent dun coup fatal, / Et les autres f'en vont du Camp a L'Hofpital. 2" AFTER CALLOT, Jacques; (French; 1592-1635) CRE LORRAIN, Claude; (French; 1600-1682) numero 15 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:
"See how the world is and how many dangers / Persecute endlessly the children of the God Mars / Some of them hurt are crowling on the floor / The others more unfortunate are raised at the war / Some on a gibbet die of a fatal blow, / And the others leave the camp for the Hospital" | 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: | WOUNDED : PUNISHMENT : WAR : HOSPITAL : HANDICAPED : FIGHTING : SOLDIER : SET : VOLUME : MISERY OF WAR : 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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