Accession number
PML 145850.107
Published
A Gan[d] : Adriaen Possemiers excudit., [between 1670 and 1685?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Mounted as item 107 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).
Mounted as item 107 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: 221 x 333 mm; sheet: 252 x 360 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the interior of a smithy where the blacksmith "Lustucru" and an assistant are busy at right forging new heads to replace those of bad or disobedient women; two men, one with a basket of heads on his back and another standing with a donkey similarly laden, are shown at left, while in the background through a doorway at far left, a man may be seen in the act of cutting off a woman's head with an ax.
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