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

An officer canes a drunken soldier. The scene resembles a brawl. The point of such pictures was to distinguish “civilizing” discipline from anarchical brutality. Etching by Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801), 1776.

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