Accession number
PML 145850.63
Published
[France] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1620?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Print relating, in five panels, a version of the fable known as "The old man, his son, and the ass."
Each panel individually captioned in French; eight lines of Latin at bottom, with caption title reading "Zoilus" at bottom center.
Mounted as item 63 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Each panel individually captioned in French; eight lines of Latin at bottom, with caption title reading "Zoilus" at bottom center.
Mounted as item 63 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 275 x 405 mm; plate mark: 318 x 405 mm; sheet: 422 x 535 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows in five panels: an older man riding the donkey as his son walks behind; the son riding as his father walks behind; both father and son astride the donkey; both father and son standing on either side of the donkey; and a circular central panel showing both father and son on foot and leading the donkey behind them.
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