Seven women attending a man with dwarfism [print].

Accession number: 
PML 145850.239
Author: 
Heemskerck, Egbert van, approximately 1674-1744.
Published: 
[S.l. : s.n., 17--?]
Description: 
1 print : etching ; image: approx. 180 x 490 mm; sheet: 295 x 525 mm, semi-circular
Credit: 
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).

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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