Accession number
PML 145850.75
Creator
Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608.
Published
Antuerpiae : Bertholomaeus de Mompere excudebat, 1559.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Hollstein.
Etching attributed to Pieter van der Borcht by Hollstein and others.
With four lines of verse in two columns below, reading: De dronckarts verblyen hem [sic] in sulcken feeste[n] / kyven en vichten en droncken drincken als beeste / te kermissen te ghaenne tsy mans oft vrouwen / Daer ome laet de boeren haer kermisse houwen.
Mounted as item 75 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).
Etching attributed to Pieter van der Borcht by Hollstein and others.
With four lines of verse in two columns below, reading: De dronckarts verblyen hem [sic] in sulcken feeste[n] / kyven en vichten en droncken drincken als beeste / te kermissen te ghaenne tsy mans oft vrouwen / Daer ome laet de boeren haer kermisse houwen.
Mounted as item 75 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: 275 x 471 mm; sheet: 307 x 483 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Etching shows a riotous village "kermesse" crowded with dancing and carousing revellers; in the foreground at left, a group of men and women dance in a circle, while others are shown drinking and defecating beneath an arbor at right; at far right, a violent altercation with swords and knives has broken out, leaving one man face down on the ground as women attempt to separate the men brawlering above him.
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