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Artist Gerrit Schouten makes portraits of three condemned men

📅 24 January 1833

Two days before their execution, Gerrit Schouten visited Kodjo, Mentor, and Present in custody and drew ink portraits of them. Historian Natalie Zemon Davis notes the portraits show individual...