Army Train and Death

Johann Theodor de Bry

Artist, Flemish, 1561 - 1623

Jeremias Wolff

Publisher, German, 1663 - 1724

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate): 6.7 × 28.7 cm (2 5/8 × 11 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3357

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 28 (as after H.S. Beham), undescribed ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

In image, in plate, at lower left: Ioan Theodore de Bry fe:; below image, in plate: Procintu tali gens ferrea militiai / Pergit, Equis, Scortis, Plaustris & cincta Camelis, / Vastatura domos, Urbes, & florida regna. / Infelix certe numerus, furumque maniplus: / Cui ne perdendi & percundi occasio desit / Mors comes a tergo trahitur truce lurida falce. (Armed in this way, the pitiless soldiers sally forth / Accompanied by horses, whores, wagons, and camels. / They stand prepared to devastate houses, cities, and flourishing landscapes, / A troop of pernicious thugs and villians, / So that they lose no opportunity of killing others or of destroying themselves, / Death has been added to the end of their train, together with his corpse-creating scythe. [translation from Keith Moxey, "Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation."(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), pp. 87-88])

Wikidata ID

Q64958954

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