Accession number
PML 145850.106
Creator
Matham, Adriaan, 1599?-1660, engraver.
Published
[Amsterdam] : CJ Visscher excudit, [between 1630 and 1650?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
The second state as described by Franken, with the name of the publisher added and four lines of verse in Dutch in the lower margin: Dit cromme vel, met haer gesel, noch lustich treden ...
Mounted as item 106 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).
The second state as described by Franken, with the name of the publisher added and four lines of verse in Dutch in the lower margin: Dit cromme vel, met haer gesel, noch lustich treden ...
Mounted as item 106 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: 354 x 297 mm; plate mark: 374 x 301 mm; sheet: 382 x 310 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an old beggar in rags with a wooden leg playing the hurdy-gurdy alongside his hunched wife who sings using a sheet of paper with the words to the song
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