[Decimation] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Decimation] [graphic]
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Beaver, John, active 18th century.
Published / Created: [1725?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A scene of a mass punishment in which every tenth man was executed and the rest condemned to live on barley instead of wheat
Description: Title, state, and date from Paulson.
Print created for John Beaver's Roman military punishments; used as headpiece for Chap. IV; see p. 41.
Provenance: Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 48 x 81 mm, on sheet 59 x 93 mm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations England 1725
Etchings England London 1725
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Beaver, John, active 18th century.
Subject (Topic): Punishment & torture
Soldiers
Roman
Subjects: Beaver, John, active 18th century > Illustrations
Punishment & torture
Soldiers > Roman
England > 1725
England > London > 1725
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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