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Punishments: the stake
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
On a clearing near a church and some houses that are on fire, many soldiers watch how a man, bound to a stake, dies on a pyre. Below the image a six-line French verse. This print is part of a series of 17 (18 incl. title print) prints depicting various kinds of misery that warfare brings with it.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineStrafmaatregelen: de brandstapel. 1677 - 1690. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
