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Jean-Baptiste Le Prince: English: Punishment with the great knout.

Français : Supplice du grand knout.

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Artist
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince  (1734–1781)  wikidata:Q562013
 
Description French painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 17 September 1734 Edit this at Wikidata 30 September 1781 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Metz Saint-Denis-du-Port
Work period 1749 Edit this at Wikidata–1781 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q562013
Title
English: Punishment with the great knout.
Français : Supplice du grand knout.
Description
English: A print showing a man stripped to the waist and hung from a beam by his hands with his legs tied to a log, ready to be whipped with a knout, a heavy scourge-like multiple whip usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle.
Date circa 1765
date QS:P571,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium Pen and ink drawing with grey wash.
Dimensions height: 24 cm (9.4 in); width: 19 cm (7.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,24U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,19U174728
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Published as plate no. XIV in vol. I of Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (1768) Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du roi en 1761; contenant les moeurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance; la description géographique & le nivellement de la route de Paris à Tobolsk; l'histoire naturelle de la même route; des observations astronomiques, & des expériences sur l'électricité naturelle: enrichi de cartes géographiques, de plans, de profils du terrein; de gravures qui représentent les usages des Russes, leurs moeurs, leurs habillements, les divinités des Calmouks, & plusieurs morceaux d'histoire naturelle. Par M. l'abbé Chappe d'Auteroche ... [Journey into Siberia, made ​​by order of the King in 1761, containing the manners and customs of the Russians, and the current state of this power; the geographical description & grading of the road from Paris to Tobolsk, the natural history of route, astronomical observations, and experiments on natural electricity: enriched with maps, plans, profiles of the terrain; engravings depicting customs of the Russians, their manners, their clothing, the deities of the Calmucks, & several pieces of natural history. By Abbé Chappe d'Auteroche ...], Paris: chez Debure, pere, libraire, quia des Augustins, à Saint Paul OCLC: 491838766.
Inscriptions Above the print: "Tom. I. No XIV". Below the print: "J. B. le Prince del. / J. B. Tilliard sculp." and the caption "SUPPLICE DU GRAND KNOUT.".
References Jean-Baptiste Le Prince ([c. 1765]). [Supplice du grand knout]. (from WorldCat).
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