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- Museum number
- 1855,0414.189
- Title
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Object: Le Massacre fait à Vassy le premier iour de Mars 1562
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Series: Histoires diverses qui sont mémorables touchant les Guerres, Massacres & Troubles advenus en France en ces dernières années
- Description
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The Massacre at Vassy in 1562, with Duke François de Guise and his men murdering a congregation of Huguenots attending a religious service in a building; in the background on the left, the cardinal of Lorraine, leaning on a wall and watching; with letterpress text. c.1570
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1569-1575
- Dimensions
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Height: 321 millimetres
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Width: 493 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related to the twelfth plate from a series of forty-one (title-page, foreword and thirty-nine illustrations, see 1855,0414.179 for comment on the series). As there is no etched version known for that episode, it is impossible to determine whether this woodcut is a faithful copy or a recomposition of the etched plate, and, while it bears the monogram of Perrissin, Duplessis reckons he and Tortorel merely did the designs which were then transposed on wood or copper by other artists.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Wars of Religion (Massacre of Protestants at Vassy) 1 March 1562
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0414.189
