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La Pendaison (The hanging), plate 11 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…
"A New Love Song, Only Ha' Pence A Piece"
Series: Cries of London
Plate 11, a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling to two men, around them are two women with a child, and a small boy feeding a dog.
Kommt her zu mir spricht Gottes Sohn
This melody is a contrafact of the secular song Es ist nicht lang, daß es geschah (“It’s not long ago that this happened”) also known or identified as the Lindenschmied-Weise (either ‘Mr. Lindenschmied’s melody’ or ‘the tune sung by the blacksmith…
