Jacques CALLOT (1592-1635). The Martyrs of Japan. Etching (crease, trimmed), engraved in the image: 'Callot fec.' lower left, lower margin engraved: "Le Pourtraict des premier 23 Martire mis en Croix par la predicaon. de la S. foy au Giappon / soubs l'Empe Taicosam en la Cité de Mongasachi, de lordre des freres mineurs Obseruantin de S. Francois". Sight size : Height. 16 cm - Width 11 cm *Jacques Callot was commissioned to produce this engraving commemorating the death of twenty-three Franciscans in Japan, martyred in Nagasaki around 1597. The 1st state of 2 of this engraving is kept in the Edmond de Rothschild collection. Also included: - Engraving after Jacques CALLOT, Les grandes misères de la guerre : Distribution des récompenses, six alexandrines engraved in the lower margin; it belongs to the series of eighteen prints by Callot on the sufferings and crimes caused by the Thirty Years' War - 17th or 18th century; - Engraving after Daniel HOPFER, La fête de Bacchus, early print; - Engraving after Giovanni Antonio FALDONI (artist) (1690-1770) Hunter sounding his horn with a deer in the distance, from Diversarum Iconum, Latin inscription in the lower margin - 18th century. Mainly marginal foxing and dampening, small stains, paper slightly creased and wrinkled.