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Soldiers Attacking and Plundering a Village
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Soldiers Attacking and Plundering a Village

Jan van Ossenbeeck · 1647 - 1674 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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A group of soldiers attacks a village. The soldiers set the buildings on fire and drive the cattle out. The inhabitants of the village are tortured. A man is strangled, another is poured full through a funnel. In the middle soldiers hang a man upside down from a tree. On the right in the foreground on a hill the commander of the soldiers rides on a man instead of a horse.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineSoldaten overvallen en plunderen een dorp. 1647 - 1674. Jan van Ossenbeeck. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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