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Brave cloathes and painted faces up are cry'd / And all the world is nothing else but pride [print] / Jacob Leenderss in. ; Lambert Corn. sculp.

Accession number
PML 145850.47
Creator
Cornelisz, Lambert, engraver.
Published
[Amsterdam?] : P. Goos excude, [16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Caption text in English, Latin, and Dutch.
Evidently the first of a suite or series of plates; numbered "1" at bottom of image.
See PML 145850.48 for a related print in the lIbrary's collection, being number 2 of the same series.
Mounted as item 47 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: 223 x 165 mm, oval; sheet: 303 x 180 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Oval emblematic print of Pride as a richly dressed woman seated on the world globe and regarding herself in a mirror, as a peacock stands in the background at left, and a pair of young lovers stride past in the distance.
Classification
Department