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Destruction of a Convent, plate six from The Miseries of War
Jacques Callot1633
- Attribution
- Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) published by Israël Henriet (French, 1590-1661)
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Physical dimensions
- Plate: 8.2 × 18.6 cm (3 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 12 × 22.4 cm (4 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Fund
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Inscribed: Here, in a sacrilegious and barbarous action, these maddened, avaricious demons pillage and burn everything, demolishing the altars, laugh at the respect due to the Immortals, and drag from the holy places the disconsolate virgins, whom they dare to carry off to be violated.
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