Once the Penitentiaries were Secure Places ...
Rasp-Huys, Het. Two convicts rasping in the fairly well-secured dungeon. Engraving by Caspar Luyken (1649 Amsterdam 1705). 8.8 x 8 cm.
Worked on the spot about 1700 for Christoph Weigel in Nuremberg as one of the "dishonorable professions". See Bauer, Chr. Weigel, 1982/83, pp. 842 ff. with especially footnote 413. – Not concluded sub (Nowadays, thus once, the penitentiaries are secure places ...) + other rear text in Dutch:
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