Recruitment of Troops, from Les Grands Misères et Malheurs de la Guerre

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Recruitment of Troops, from Les Grands Misères et Malheurs de la Guerre

Artist Jacques Callot French, 1592-1635

Publisher Israël Henriet French, ca. 1590-1661

Date1633

DimensionsImage: 3 1/4 × 7 3/8 in. (8.3 × 18.7 cm)
Sheet: 4 3/4 × 9 in. (12.1 × 22.9 cm)

MediumEtching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1982.130B

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Published ReferencesSee 1982.130AExhibition HistoryTMA: Disasters of War, July 13 - October 21, 2001 TMA Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, & llustrated Books Jan. 22, - June 24, 1983. TMA, The Dramatic Image: Baroque Prints of the 17th Century, February 25 - July 31, 2011.Label TextThat metal which Pluto encloses within his veins, which at the same time causes peace and war, draws the soldier, without fear of danger, from the place of his birth to foreign lands, where, having embarked to follow the military, his virtue must arm itself against vice.