File:"Blowing from Guns in British India", 1884 (black and white).jpg

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Vasily Vereshchagin: Blowing from Guns in British India   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Vasily Vereshchagin  (1842–1904)  wikidata:Q127017 s:ru:Василий Васильевич Верещагин q:ru:Василий Васильевич Верещагин
 
Vasily Vereshchagin
Alternative names
Russian: Василий Васильевич Верещагин
Description Russian painter, writer, military personnel, history painter and genre painter
Date of birth/death 14 October 1842 (in Julian calendar) Edit this at Wikidata 31 March 1904 (in Julian calendar) Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Cherepovets Port Lüshun, today Lüshunkou District
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Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Paris, Munich
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artist QS:P170,Q127017
Title
Blowing from Guns in British India
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This is a black-and-white reproduction of Blowing from Guns in British India.[1], [2]

This particular reproduction was used in Raubstaat England, a 1941 anti-British propaganda leaflet issued by the Nazis.[3] It appeared in that leaflet with the following caption:

'Title: “Execution of rebellious Sepoys”

Caption: “To carry out mass death sentences on rebelious Indian soldiers, English officers found a new form of execution: The condemned were tied to canons and ‘blown into the air.’” A painting by the Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin.”'

العربية: لتنفيذ أحكام الإعدام الجماعية على الجنود الهنود المتمردين ، وجد الضباط الإنجليز شكلاً جديدًا من أشكال الإعدام: تم ربط المدانين بمدافع "ليتفم تفجيرهم في الهواء". لوحة للرسام الروسي فاسيلي فيريشاجين
Date 1880s
date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
UnknownUnknown
Source/Photographer http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/images/raub/raub3.jpg

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