Accession number
PML 146639, p. 391 (preceding)
Published
[Italy] : Ioannis Orlandii form, [16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved caption title.
Portrait of the "hairy maid" Tognina (or Antonietta) Gonzales, a daughter of the famous hairy man Petrus Gonzales (1537-1618), a native of the Canary Islands who was presented as an infant to King Henri II in Paris and subsequently retained as a member of the King's household.
Copy of a print by Giacomo Franco.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Print inlaid into a larger leaf and inserted after p. 391 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Portrait of the "hairy maid" Tognina (or Antonietta) Gonzales, a daughter of the famous hairy man Petrus Gonzales (1537-1618), a native of the Canary Islands who was presented as an infant to King Henri II in Paris and subsequently retained as a member of the King's household.
Copy of a print by Giacomo Franco.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Print inlaid into a larger leaf and inserted after p. 391 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 ; 179 x 130 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Half-length portrait shows Tognina as a young girl, facing forward from the waist up, her face covered with thick hair and a flower held in her right hand in front of her chest as she rests her other hand on her left hip.
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