Abstract

An officer canes a drunken soldier. The scene resembles a brawl. The point of such pictures was to distinguish “civilizing” discipline from anarchical brutality.

Second Military Punishment: How a Scoundrel Receives a Beating (1776)

Daniel Chodowiecki

Source

Source: Etching by Daniel Chodowiecki, 1776.
bpk-Bildagentur, image number 20029792. For rights inquiries, please contact Art Resource at requests@artres.com (North America) or bpk-Bildagentur at kontakt@bpk-bildagentur.de (for all other countries).

Recommended Citation

Second Military Punishment: How a Scoundrel Receives a Beating (1776), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/the-holy-roman-empire-1648-1815/ghdi:image-2686> [July 12, 2024].