Légende
Public punishments, print, Four depictions of public punishments. Top left: a courtroom where a fine is being meted out. Top right: a condemned man is forced to run the gauntlet; in the background, a man is being flogged. Bottom left: an execution site. Bottom right: a forced laborer, prisoners, and men being banished. Bottom center: numbered: Tab XXXIV., printmaker: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Berlin, 1770, paper, etching, height 179 mm x width 231 mm, The print is part of a series of 96 prints published to illustrate the 'Elementarwerk' by the German pedagogue Johann Bernhard Basedow. The prints were made by various artists based on drawings by Daniel Chodowiecki. In 1774 the collected print work appeared under the title: Kupfersammlung zu JB Basedows Elementarwerk für die Jugend und ihre Freunde., Person, Johann Bernhard Basedow, court session (court of justice), flogging, scourging (in public), on the scaffold or place of execution, banishment, exile, running the gauntlet, An engraved sheet divided into four rectangular vignettes shows various scenes with finely hatched shading; the top left panel depicts an interior room with a high arched ceiling, a counter or railing, seated figures behind it, standing men with wigs and coats presenting papers, and shelves of books or bundles above; the top right panel shows an outdoor scene with ranks of soldiers standing with long pikes, drummers among them, an officer on horseback in front of the formation, a raised platform with men and a wooden structure, and trees and a building in the background; the bottom left panel shows a crowd of onlookers facing a stage where two men are elevated, with one in a dynamic pose swinging an implement and others watching, horses and cloaked figures at the edge of the crowd, and seagulls or birds in the sky; the bottom right panel shows a courtyard or gat
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26A83_431
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
36.1Mo (6.1Mo) / 33.2cm x 27.2cm / 3917 x 3218 (300dpi)