# Condemned to Haul Ships, 1787, published by Johann Martin Will

Five condemned men, chained to one another and yoked in pairs to wooden buckets slung from shoulder poles, carry water up from the Danube. A guard in a heavy cloak leans on his cane at the right. Behind them a two-masted river ship rides at anchor and a second file of prisoners leans into a towline along the bank, while a walled fortress on its bluff closes the view at the left. The sheet's own caption accounts for both duties. The whole company was chained aboard two ships in Vienna on 24 April 1787 and sent to Hungary, 104 men in number, sixteen of them branded on the cheeks with the gallows and the wheel; and when the Danube froze and they could not be used to haul ships, they were chained together in fives and made to carry water from the river to the fortress of Peterwardein. The five in the foreground are that winter detail, which is the duty the caption ties to this place. Johann Martin Will published the sheet at Augsburg.

- Date: 1787
- Place: [Petrovaradin](https://archive.neusatz.cc/s/petrovaradin/index.md)
- Kind: print
- Lettering on the object: Condemnirte zum Schiff Ziehen. // Als d. 24. April 1787. die gantze gesellschaft in Wien auf zwey schiff öffentlich zusamen geschmidet worden, und nach Ungarn abgegangen, sie wahren 104. an der zahl wovon 16. Galgen u. Radt auf die Wangen ein gebrandt worden, dan solche wan die Donau zu gefroren und zum schiff ziehen nicht könen verwendt werden, zu 5. Mañ zu samen geschlosen, und daß Waser auß der Donau nach der Festung Peterwardein tragen müßen. // Joh. Mart. Will exc. A.V.
- Lettering in English: Condemned to ship-hauling. On 24 April 1787 the whole company was publicly chained together onto two ships in Vienna and sent off to Hungary. They were 104 in number, of whom 16 had been branded on the cheeks with the gallows and the wheel. Then, when the Danube froze and they could not be used for hauling ships, they were chained together in fives and had to carry water from the Danube to the fortress of Peterwardein. Published by Johann Martin Will, Augsburg.
- Made by: Johann Martin Will (publisher)
- Source: [The Albertina Museum](https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/15508/https___id_kulturpool_at_34b9ec1c_c74b_4156_8d0a_2cec44bf9c49_cho)
- Credit: The Albertina Museum / Anonym, published by Johann Martin Will
- Licence: Public domain
- Image: https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f473fa09e275/view.jpg
- Page: https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f473fa09e275/

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