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The punishment of criminal soldiers on a scaffold-like contraption called "Strappado". Etching by Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Wellcome Collection

The punishment of criminal soldiers on a scaffold-like contraption called "Strappado". Etching by Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

Jacques Callot

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: C'est ne pas sans raison que les grands cappitaines comme bien advisez ont invente ces peines ... Israel excud. cum privil. regis

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