Jacques Callot
France, b.1592, d.1635
La roue
- 1633
- Etching
- Gifted to the Gallery by Mr Gordon Brown, 1999
- 82 x 186mm
- 99/87
Tags: animals, buildings (structures), clubs (weapons), crucifixes, executions (events), flags, horses (animals), ladders, monochrome, people (agents), platforms (floors), priests, rifles (long guns), text (layout feature), towers (building divisions), weapons, wheels (components)
The text beneath the image reads
L’oeil tousiours surveillant de la divine Astrée
Bannit entièrement le dueil d’une contrée
Lors que tenant l’Espée et la Balance en main
Elle iuge et punit le voleur inhumain
Qui guette les paysans les meurtit et s’en ioüe
Puis luy mesme deviant le joüet d’une roüe
The ever watchful eye of divine Astrée [i.e. Justice] completely banishes mourning from a region when, with sword and scales in hand, she judges and punishes the inhuman thief who lies in wait for peasants, murders them and toys with them, then himself becomes the plaything of the wheel.