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Punishments: breaking on the wheel
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
On a clearing near a city wall many soldiers are gathered around a platform on which a man is broken on the wheel. Below the image a blank margin. This print is part of a series of 17 (18 including title print) prints with depictions of various kinds of miseries that warfare brings with it.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineStrafmaatregelen: radbraken. 1633. Jacques Callot. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
