Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Jean Calas is visited in his cell by his family as a warder loosens the shackles on his leg and a man in a cowl enters the room. Engraving by Andreas Leonhard Moeglich after Daniel Chodowiecki.
Jean Calas is visited in his cell by his family as a warder loosens the shackles on his leg and a man in a cowl enters the room. Engraving by Andreas Leonhard Moeglich after Daniel Chodowiecki.
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Jean Calas is visited in his cell by his family as a warder loosens the shackles on his leg and a man in a cowl enters the room. Engraving by Andreas Leonhard Moeglich after Daniel Chodowiecki.

1790

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Der Abschied des Calas von Seiner Familie. ... Daniel Chodowiecki, inv. et delin. Andreas Leonhard Moeglich, sculpsit et excudit.

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