Accession number
PML 145850.239
Creator
Heemskerck, Egbert van, approximately 1674-1744.
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 17--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger; attribution from inscription.
Hand colored etching printed in sepia ink.
Inserted as item 2 in 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).
Hand colored etching printed in sepia ink.
Inserted as item 2 in 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).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: approx. 180 x 490 mm; sheet: 295 x 525 mm, semi-circular
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at lower left, "This print was designed and engraved by Mr. Egbert Heemskerk".
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A fan shaped composition showing seven young women surrounding the figure of a man with dwarfism who stands at the center of the design dressed in rustic attire; the women hold up various accessories with which to outfit him, including a wig, bow, fashionable shoes with high heels, sword, and tricorne hat; one of the women stands directly behind him with a swaddled "infant" bearing the dwarf's features in her arms.
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