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

Head with four faces [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.31
Published
[Antwerp?] : F.V. Wÿngaerde, [16--
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Plate is possibly part of a published suite of prints issued by Wyngaerde, such as Peeter van Avont's "Livres de satyres et grotesses" (Antwerp : Franciscus Vanden Wyngaerde, [ca. 1650]).
Mounted as item 31 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: 147 x 101 mm; plate mark: 154 x 106 mm; sheet: 189 x 137 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print of a grotesque head with four faces shown in profile at the top, bottom, left and right of the figure, with the bottom profile being that of a ram.
Classification
Department