Accession number
PML 145850.57
Creator
Passe, Crispijn van de, -1670, engraver.
Published
[Netherlands] : Crispijn van de Passe, [between 1614-1618?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Last of a series of four engravings by Crispijn de Passe II illustrating the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
Lettered below with four lines of Latin in two columns, with first line: Post miseram assequitur [sic] mendicus gaudia vitam.
Mounted as item 57 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).
Last of a series of four engravings by Crispijn de Passe II illustrating the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
Lettered below with four lines of Latin in two columns, with first line: Post miseram assequitur [sic] mendicus gaudia vitam.
Mounted as item 57 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 : engraving ; image: 256 x 327 mm; sheet: 276 x 333 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the rich man lying in Hell in the foreground at left, naked and beset by demons, as Lazarus lies in the lap of Abraham in the corner at upper right.
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