Accession number
PML 145850.18
Published
[London? : s.n., 16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
A reverse copy of a print by Coryn Boel after David Teniers the Younger; print listed in the catalogs of London printseller Peter Stent (1662) and his successor John Overton (1673).
Five lines of etched verse below image: The Devill is Gods ape, and man he has / Monkeys to ape him in his dish and glasse / One having drunke downe feare, and now grown moyster, / Chatters to See his fellow ope an Oyster, / And full of fish and flesh, and high with Drinke, None halfe so happy as themselves they think.
Mounted as item 18 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).
A reverse copy of a print by Coryn Boel after David Teniers the Younger; print listed in the catalogs of London printseller Peter Stent (1662) and his successor John Overton (1673).
Five lines of etched verse below image: The Devill is Gods ape, and man he has / Monkeys to ape him in his dish and glasse / One having drunke downe feare, and now grown moyster, / Chatters to See his fellow ope an Oyster, / And full of fish and flesh, and high with Drinke, None halfe so happy as themselves they think.
Mounted as item 18 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 ; 103 x 153 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two monkeys sitting with a jug and platter of oysters between them.
Classification
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