صورة:1857 Revenge.jpg

This is a black-and-white reproduction of Blowing from Guns in British India, a painting created by Vasili Vereshchagin in the 1880s.[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 (factually untrue) caption:

'This 1857 photograph was published in 1939 by the English newspaper 'Picture Post.' It shows the methods used to suppress the Sepoy Rebellion. As an English eyewitness noted at the time: "The executions occurred summarily and without appeal."'

Source of the image

Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.

2006-02-08 (original upload date)

Original uploader was IndianCow at en.wikipedia

This image is in the public domain due to its age.

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