Sweethart forgive me I have done I'le help you put ye breeches on [print] / P Serwouter sculp. ; DVB invent.

Accession number: 
PML 145850.113
Author: 
Serwouters, Pieter, 1586-1657, engraver.
Published: 
[Amsterdam] : P. Goos excud, [16--]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 171 x 217 mm; sheet: 198 x 243 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title from item; text in Dutch in lower left hand corner reads: Waerdich is dien Man begect/ Die syn Vrou de' Broec aentrect.
State not described in Hollstein, with text in English and P. Goos as publisher.
An earlier state exists with "P. Serwouters excud.", dated 1607. Cf. Hollstein.
Mounted as item 113 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).

Variant Title: 

Sweetheart forgive me I have done I'll help you put the breeches on

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a woman seated on a bench out of doors, with her husband kneeling before her to assist her in donning a pair of pants; behind her at far left, a dog is poised with its paws on the bench and a woman holding a spindle looks out of a corner window; at right, a hog lounges beneath a tree.

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