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Callot's exquisite miseries of war Paris, 1633 CALLOT, Jacques (c.1592-1635) and MAROLLES, Michel de (1600-1681). Les grandes misères de la guerre. Paris: Israël Henriet 1633. Arresting and influential etchings depicting the Thirty Years War—“one of the most beautiful works of Callot” (Lieure). This suite of 18 prints depicts the brutal consequences of war outside the battlefield, illustrating the looting of the countryside, executions, and violent punishments which follow battle. “With these devices, Callot aestheticizes our experience of war and at the same time graphically presents its horrors as part of our own world” (RISD). Its influence can be seen in later works, most notably Goya’s Los desastres de la Guerra. This is the large series, with most plates in the second state with verse by Michel de Marolles. Lieure 1339-1356. See RISD catalogue Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print, June 17, 2011-November 6, 2011. 18 etchings (85 x 192mm) mounted on card in oblong album (184 x 292mm). Extra engraving of Callot by Potanzani after Antony van Dyke (plate mark: 115 x 88mm) bound in. Frontispiece in third state (image slightly trimmed at top and bottom), the following 17 plates in the second state (occasional surface losses). 19th-century blue half morocco over blue marbled boards (wear). Provenance: John Burgass (armorial bookplate and inscription dated 1839) – John Chipman Gray (1839-1915, American legal scholar; engraved bookplate).