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The Hanging, plate eleven from The Miseries of War

Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)LinkedCulture matchlcp-950e643cf577

Date: 1633
Medium: Etching on paper
Culture: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 23112

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Inscribed: Finally these infamous and abandoned thieves, hanging from this tree like wretched fruit, show that crime (horrible and black species) is itself the instrument of shame and vengeance, and that it is the fate of corrupt men to experience the justice of Heaven sooner or later.

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Credit line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund

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Object type: AAT300041273

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