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New Elegy
Plate XIV 'New Elegy' - Illustration from 'The Cries of London' 1839
Murder of William of Orange
Prince William of Orange was assassinated by a Jesuit named Balthasar Gérard (1557-1584).
Le Bûcher (The Stake), plate 13 from Les Misères et les malheurs de la guerre (The miseries and misfortunes of war) series.
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…
Le Barbarie del mondo
Le barbarie del mondo, by Hieronymous Porro (fl 1574-1604), depicts Italian street people collected under the unkind general heading of "barbarism of the world". I misread the description of the actions of the people in the print (found at the…
Last Dying Speech
This watercolour depicts a streetseller vending a batch of criminal broadsheets. In the background, crowds are watching an execution taking place outside Newgate Prison.
La Roue (The Wheel), plate 14 from Les Misères et les malheurs de la guerre (The miseries and misfortunes of war) series.
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…
L’Estrapade (The Strappado), plate 10 from the suite Les Misères et les malheurs de la guerre (The miseries and misfortunes of war).
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…
L’Arquebusade (The firing squad), plate 12 from Les Misères et les malheurs de la guerre (The miseries and misfortunes of war) series.
Callot has always been regarded as one of the exceptional artists of his time, although he never made any paintings; he worked exclusively as a printmaker and produced more than 1400 plates, almost all of which he designed and which earned him…