Accession number
PML 145850.178
Creator
Braeu, Nicolaes, engraver.
Published
[London : Robert Pricke, plate ca. 1592, but printed 165-]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
A later state of the second of a series of six plates of Proverbs engraved ca. 1592 by Nicolaes Braeu after Karel van Mander.
Caption text in two columns, with four lines of verse in English above eight lines of verse in Latin; English caption text continues: ... When Parents Daughters in the ballance weigh / Let one bee ner'e soe good and nobly born, / If hee want cash then all will say him nay.
"... from a series of six engravings showing proverbs after Karel van Mander (New Hollstein 95-100). The entire set of six plates of the Proverbs was much later (in or after the 1650s) acquired by Robert Pricke (his address is on the first plate, New Hollstein 95) who also added the English verses."--Curator's comments, BM online catalog.
Inserted as item 178 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).
A later state of the second of a series of six plates of Proverbs engraved ca. 1592 by Nicolaes Braeu after Karel van Mander.
Caption text in two columns, with four lines of verse in English above eight lines of verse in Latin; English caption text continues: ... When Parents Daughters in the ballance weigh / Let one bee ner'e soe good and nobly born, / If hee want cash then all will say him nay.
"... from a series of six engravings showing proverbs after Karel van Mander (New Hollstein 95-100). The entire set of six plates of the Proverbs was much later (in or after the 1650s) acquired by Robert Pricke (his address is on the first plate, New Hollstein 95) who also added the English verses."--Curator's comments, BM online catalog.
Inserted as item 178 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: 216 x 164 mm; plate mark: 244 x 170 mm; sheet: 273 x 196 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a man and woman sitting on a large pair of scales and being weighed, the bride holding open the lid to a chest containing coins, the groom with a bag of coins between his legs, surrounded by several figures (relatives?), Cupid steals off at right, carrying a sack on his back.
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