Accession number
PML 145850.132
Creator
Bosch, Cornelis, 1506 or 10-ca. 1570, engraver.
Published
[S.l.] : [s.n.], 1552.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Kerrich; Hollstein and Schéle identify Cornelis Bos as the engraver of this print.
Text in upper right hand corner, within rectangle: Ich ellender mensch, Waer Wirt mich erlosen Von dem leiib deses todts ... aber mit dem fleisch dem gesatz der sund, zu den Romeren. 7. Cap.
Signed at lower right: M. Hemskerck [sic] In Ventor 1552.
In some recorded states, the date "1552" has been visibly altered to read "1554". Cf. Schéle.
Library's copy has unaltered date of 1552.
Mounted as item 132 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 closely trimmed to image.
Text in upper right hand corner, within rectangle: Ich ellender mensch, Waer Wirt mich erlosen Von dem leiib deses todts ... aber mit dem fleisch dem gesatz der sund, zu den Romeren. 7. Cap.
Signed at lower right: M. Hemskerck [sic] In Ventor 1552.
In some recorded states, the date "1552" has been visibly altered to read "1554". Cf. Schéle.
Library's copy has unaltered date of 1552.
Mounted as item 132 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 closely trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 293 x 204 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a man on the right holding a heart in both hands which is tethered by cords to three symbols of wordliness (i.e. a crown, nude woman, and bag of coins), all enclosed in a globe; at right, Christ, holding a large cross by his side, is shown in the act of cutting the cords with a flaming sword.
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