Accession number
PML 146638, p. 224 (facing)
Creator
Aubry, Peter, 1596-1666.
Published
[S.l. : s.n., ca. 1650?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from engraved caption.
Full text of caption reads: Zu Gottersweÿer ich Jeörg Bausse bin gebohren / Vor acht und Vierzig Jahr, der Keÿser ausserstohren, Der Graff von Pappenheim, hielten mich lieb und wehrt, / Ich Geig, und wan ich will, heb zwen Adam von der Erd.
Inserted after p. 224 into v. 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146638.
Full text of caption reads: Zu Gottersweÿer ich Jeörg Bausse bin gebohren / Vor acht und Vierzig Jahr, der Keÿser ausserstohren, Der Graff von Pappenheim, hielten mich lieb und wehrt, / Ich Geig, und wan ich will, heb zwen Adam von der Erd.
Inserted after p. 224 into v. 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146638.
Description
1 print : engraving ; plate mark: 280 x 188 mm; sheet: 289 x 198 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Jeörg (or Jörg) Bausse, a musician and man with dwarfism, standing full length, turned 3/4 to the left and holding a violin; in the background a crowded fairground scene is visible.
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