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The drinker [print] / H. Golts f.

Accession number
PML 145850.236
Published
[Amsterdam] : P. Goos ex., [16--
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
"Published by Pieter Goos (Amsterdam 1616-after 1672 Amsterdam), and probably engraved by him after a drawing by Goltzius."--Bartsch.
Caption continues: ... In Taverns spends itt uncontrouled / Both books and Time he doth neglect / So much he drinking doth affect.
Companion print to PML 145850.123.
Inserted as item 236 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: 165 x 130 mm; plate mark: 192 x 130 mm; sheet: 230 x 171 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Engraving shows a young man, seated and guzzling drink, with a tumbler held in each hand; at his feet lie an overturned hourglass, notebook, and schoolbook, upon which he rests one foot. At left is a ledge set with a ewer and two more glasses, and behind him grow grapevines on an arbor. Design bevelled to an arch at top.
Classification
Department