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The Firing Squad, plate twelve from The Miseries of War

1633
Etching on paper
8.1 × 18.7 cm (3.2 × 7.4 in)

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Inscribed: Those who, in obedience to their evil genius, fail in their duty, use tyranny, take pleasure only in evil and violate reason, and whose treason-filled actions produce a thousand bloody uproars in the camp, are thus chastised and shot.

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