Accession number
PML 145850.98
Creator
Goddard, John, active 1645-1671, engraver.
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1665]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Print by Goddard issued in London ca. 1665 mocking those residents of the city who fled during the Great Plague of 1664-1666. Cf. White.
Evidently after an engraving originally issued by the De Gheyn family ca. 1596, with the design executed by Goddard in reverse. Cf. Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700, v. VII, (De Gheyn), no. 112.
Six lines of engraved verse below image: You that of late have lefte your habitation, / And in Barnes, Stables, Hayrickes, took your Station : / With scornes and taunts though other men doe meete yu / At your returne the Foole doth kindly Greete you / And though your Coyne and Credit scanted bee, / Your honest Cooze will keepe you Company.
Mounted as item 98 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).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Print by Goddard issued in London ca. 1665 mocking those residents of the city who fled during the Great Plague of 1664-1666. Cf. White.
Evidently after an engraving originally issued by the De Gheyn family ca. 1596, with the design executed by Goddard in reverse. Cf. Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700, v. VII, (De Gheyn), no. 112.
Six lines of engraved verse below image: You that of late have lefte your habitation, / And in Barnes, Stables, Hayrickes, took your Station : / With scornes and taunts though other men doe meete yu / At your returne the Foole doth kindly Greete you / And though your Coyne and Credit scanted bee, / Your honest Cooze will keepe you Company.
Mounted as item 98 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).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 128 x 113 mm; sheet: 178 x 118 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a fool facing right, grinning at a bauble topped with a fool's head.
Classification
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