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An etching of an execution before a great building: bodies laid out on a scaffold, a crowd and riders in front, men hanged from a window
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A count, six barons and several noblemen

The Prague execution as a Dutch etcher imagined it nearly eighty years later.

Made by
Jan Luyken
Made
1698
Technique
Etching
Credit
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain (CC0).
The event: The Old Town Square execution →Source ↗

Jan Luyken etched hundreds of scenes of persecution for Dutch books. He had never seen Prague, and it shows: compare his square with the 1621 sheet. A good lesson in reading a print: who made it, when, and from what.

An etching of an execution before a great building: bodies laid out on a scaffold, a crowd and riders in front, men hanged from a window

The Old Town Square execution

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