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Dese beelt van Mr. Hans ... [print] = The figure here above most lively represents the world's great wonder little Switzer Hans ... / J. Drapentier fecit.

Accession number
PML 146639, p. 322 (facing)
Creator
Drapentier, Jan, active 1674-1713, engraver.
Published
[S.l. : s.n., ca. 1688?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from engraved caption.
Caption verse in Dutch, English, and French; English caption continues: Two foot and Seaven Inches is his Height / Altho' so little, yet he's thirty Eight.
Inserted after p. 322 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 269 x 188 mm; sheet: 323 x 192 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Portrait of Hans Wormbergh, who was reputed to have stood 31 inches high, full length, facing slightly to the left, in court dress, with a cane in his right hand.
Classification
Department