Accession number
PML 145500, plate 060
Published
[Amsterdam] : C.J. Visscher excu., [16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Portrait of Pieter Verdonck, a prominent member of a Mennonites group in Haarlem, after a painting Frans Hals, ca. 1627.
Caption text continues: Wiens kaekebeen elck aen aen tast, / Op niemant, groot noch kleyn, hy past, / Dies raeckte hy int Werckhuis vast.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 60, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Library's copy closely trimmed; torn at upper left hand corner with some loss to image.
Copy in reverse after Jan van de Velde who engraved the print after the painting by Frans Hals.
Portrait of Pieter Verdonck, a prominent member of a Mennonites group in Haarlem, after a painting Frans Hals, ca. 1627.
Caption text continues: Wiens kaekebeen elck aen aen tast, / Op niemant, groot noch kleyn, hy past, / Dies raeckte hy int Werckhuis vast.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 60, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Library's copy closely trimmed; torn at upper left hand corner with some loss to image.
Copy in reverse after Jan van de Velde who engraved the print after the painting by Frans Hals.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 140 x 113 mm; sheet: 173 x 113 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a head and shoulders portrait of a moustached and bearded man, depicted in a pose suggestive of Samson, with an ass's jawbone raised in his right hand.
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