Accession number
PML 145850.56
Published
[Amsterdam] : C.J. Visscher, [16--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Lettered below with four columns of verses in Dutch spoken by the characters; the first, at left, headed: De doctoor heest geordonneert.
Copy of a plate from a set of seven etchings by Abraham Bosse, originally published in Paris ca. 1633 with verses in French and known under the collective title as "Les métiers"; this print of the series being variously known as "Le lavement", "Le Clystère", "The apothecary", etc.
Mounted as item 56 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).
Lettered below with four columns of verses in Dutch spoken by the characters; the first, at left, headed: De doctoor heest geordonneert.
Copy of a plate from a set of seven etchings by Abraham Bosse, originally published in Paris ca. 1633 with verses in French and known under the collective title as "Les métiers"; this print of the series being variously known as "Le lavement", "Le Clystère", "The apothecary", etc.
Mounted as item 56 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).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 284 x 342 mm; sheet: 287 x 344 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the interior of a bedroom where a lady lies in bed at right; a doctor or apothecary holding a syringe is walking in the foreground towards the patient, while a servant is holding him back and another is bringing a commode at left. Printed within decorative border.
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