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Auroit ou jamais creu que la barbe d'un suisse ... [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.194
Published
Amsterdam : P. Schenk exc., [16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Inserted as item 194 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 : etching ; image approx.: 80 x 210 mm; plate mark: 187 x 271 mm; sheet: 207 x 325 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows three reversible heads of men and women, accompanied by six stanzas of verse in French, the one at lower left beginning: Auroit ou jamais creu que la barbe d'un suisse ...
Classification
Department