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Woman on a Close Stool Attended by Clergymen [drawing].

Accession number
PML 145850.209
Creator
Anonymous, Dutch school, 17th century.
Published
17th century?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Mounted as item 209 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 drawing.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing shows a matronly woman wearing a ruff and hooded cap, seated with her skirt hiked-up upon an open close stool; she is waited upon by a group of clergymen who stand in a group in front of her, holding out slips of printed paper to her to be employed as toilet paper.
Classification
Department