"Execution"

On the right, a nude figure hangs with wrists bound and raised overhead, torso slack; beside it stands a second bound figure whose head and shoulders are wrapped in rope. In the lower left, a cluster of men in military-style caps sit and watch, one holding a hand of playing cards, their attention turned toward the hanging body.

Rendered entirely in loose, scratchy pen lines and cross-hatching on toned paper, the drawing leaves large areas bare to suggest light while dense hatching models the hanging figure's weight and shadow; the sketch-like immediacy and stark contrast between idle onlookers and the suspended body give the scene a bleak, matter-of-fact grimness.