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A work made of etching on paper.

The Stake, plate thirteen from The Miseries of War

1633

Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) published by Israël Henriet (French, 1590-1661)

France

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.

Etching on paper

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