Art Institute of Chicago
The Stake, plate thirteen from The Miseries of War
Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)
- Date
- 1633
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Inscribed: Those enemies of heaven, who a thousand times sin against the holy decrees and divine laws, glory in spitefully pillaging and destroying the temples of the true God with idolatrous hands, but as punishment for having burned them, are themselves finally sacrificed to the flames.
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