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.

  • Perrissin, J. (Jean), 1536?-1611?
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[1570?]
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42599i
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Quarante tableaux, ou Histoires diverses qui sont mémorables touchant les guerres, massacres, et troubles advenus en France en ces dernières années. Le tout recueilly selon le témoignage de ceux qui ont esté en personne, & qui les ont veues, lesquels sont pourtraits à la vérité.
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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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