Jacques Callot. The Strappado, plate ten from The Miseries of War. 1633. France. Etching on paper Inscribed It is not without cause that great captains have well-advisedly invented these punishments for idlers, blasphemers, traitors to duty, quarrelers and liars, whose actions, blinded by vice, make those of others lax and lawless.

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