Executions of Huguenots after the Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise in 1560: some conspirators are hung by the neck from a tower, others are beheaded. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
- Jean Perrissin
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- [1570?]
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- 42599i
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After the failure of the badly planned Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise (March 1560) to capture the king and destroy the Guises, the conspirators were executed
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[Geneva?] : [Jean de Laon?], [1570?]
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1 print : woodcut
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Supplicium coniuratorum Ambaxiae, sumptum die. 15. Martii. 1560. A. Renaldierus suspendus, antea Baronis Perdillianaei affectatoreac ministro occisus ... P
Bears Perrissin's monogram: P in a circle
References note
A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, Paris 1835-1871, vol. VI, pp. 42-69; vol. XI (by G. Duplessis), pp. 256-281
A. Linzeler and J. Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle, Paris 1932-1935, 1938, vol. 2, pp. 37-53
Philip Benedict, Lawrence M. Bryant, and Kristen B. Neuschel, 'Graphic history: what readers knew and were taught in the Quarante tableaux of Perrissin and Tortorel', French historical studies, 28 (2005), 175-229
Philip Benedict, Graphic history: the "Wars, massacres and troubles" of Tortorel and Perrissin, Geneva 2007
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Wellcome Collection 42599i
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