ID: 700008125 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008125	Record Type: Movable Work

Seven Men on the Gallows (drawing (visual work); Unknownmaker, Bolognese School (Artist); about 1630; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2008.24)

Note: The drawing is a quick but powerful sketch - almost certainly made on the spot - of seven men hanging on a gallows. A number of the convicts still cling to rosary beads even though their necks have been broken by the rope. The sketch belongs to the tradition, pioneered by the Carracci in late sixteenth-century Bologna, of recording subjects from daily life. Such works captured reality, while recognizing the pathos or emotion in a particular scene. Several drawings of hangings by the Carracci and contemporary artists are known, but this sheet is differentiated by the artist's inscriptions underneath the figures recording their crimes: from left to right, head of thieves, street assassin, robber of two shops, and (on the right) four counterfeiters of money hanging together.

Titles:

Seven Men on the Gallows (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1630

Creator Display:

Unknownmaker, Bolognese School (Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman unknown Bolognese (Bolognese cultural designation) [500202999]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2008.24

Other: Creation: Italia [1000080] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Pen and brown ink over black chalk

	chalk [300011727]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

Dimensions: 18.7 x 26 cm (7 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

activity

Specific Subjects:

	hanging (execution) [300386106]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), personal life events, deaths, executions (personal life events)) (AAT)

	men (male humans) [300025928]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	gallows [300266883]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, supporting equipment) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Inscribed in brown ink at the top: Gooooo po fa dies bac impicca; and under the hanged men: Cappo di Ladri; Assassin da Strada; Rob due Botegha; Tutti monetar falsi. Along the lower edge of the mount in brown ink: Salvator Rosa; in graphite D31245.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Seven Men on the Gallows	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)