Information
- Title
- The Firing Squad, from the series Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre (The Miseries of War)
- Object Number
- x1934-303 a
- Medium
- Etching
- Dates
- 1633
- Dimensions
- plate: 8.1 x 18.5 cm. (3 3/16 x 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 8.7 x 19 cm. (3 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Catalog Raisonné
- Lieure 1350; Meaume 575
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Junius S. Morgan, Class of 1888
- Place made
- Europe, France, Paris
- Inscriptions
- Signed in plate, lower left: Israel ex. Cum Priuil. Reg. Captioned in plate, lower margin: Ceux qui pour ... par les armes. Numbered in plate, lower right corner: 12
- Materials
- Techniques
- Édouard Meaume, "Volume 2," Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot, suite au Peintre-graveur français de M. Robert-Dumesnil (Paris: V.J. Renouard, 1860). , no. 1350, pp. 543–544
- Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989)., no. 571, p.
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