Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Well may the orphans and the widdowes cry when all the world is deafe to Charitie [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.48
Published
[Amsterdam? : P. Goos, 16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Caption text in English, Latin, and Dutch.
Evidently the second in a suite or series of plates issued by Pieter Goos, numbered "2" at bottom of image.
See PML 145850.47 for a related print in the lIbrary's collection, being number 1of the same series, with imprint "P. Goos excude."
Mounted as item 48 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: 217 x 160 mm, oval; sheet: 302 x 188 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Oval emblematic print showing a poor woman seated in front of a thatched cottage, surrounded by ragged and unhappy children. With the engraved verses enclosed in a cartouche at foot of the composition.
Classification
Department