The aged drunkard [print] / HG. f.

Accession number:

PML 145850.123

Author:

Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.

Published:

[Amsterdam] : P. Goos excudit., [16--]

Description:

1 print : engraving ; image: 166 x 125 mm; plate mark: 192 x 128 mm; sheet: 272 x 166 mm

Credit:

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.
Image and plate mark: arched at head; with four lines of engraved verse below: But dropsyes now and surfetts come / And unto Beggery him doe doome / And lifes remaynder that is lent / Doth only serve him to repent.
Companion print to PML 145850.236.
Mounted as item 123 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).

Variant Title:

First line: But dropsyes now and surfetts come

Provenance:

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary:

Print shows a paunchy and aged man seated in front of a ramshackle wooden fence, a staff held in one hand across his lap and his head resting on his other hand, with his elbow resting on a basket at his side. On the ground at his feet is laid a modest meal of fish.

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