Accession number
PML 146639, p. 288 (facing)
Creator
Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, engraver.
Published
London : [s.n., 1658]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from engraved caption.
Portrait of the "Hairy Maid" Barbara Van Beck, née Ursler or Urslerin.
With lettering in two columns, in Latin and English, the latter continuing: borne at Auspourg in high Germanie the daughter of Balshazzar and Ann Ursler: aged 29 Anno Dom: 1658.
Latin caption at right reads: Barbara uxor Iohannis Michaells Van Beck, nata Augustoe vindelicorum in Germania Superiori (vulgo Auspourge) ex parentibus Balthazaro et Anna Ursler: anno Christi 1629 Feb: 18.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Inserted after p. 288 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" Barbara Van Beck, née Ursler or Urslerin.
With lettering in two columns, in Latin and English, the latter continuing: borne at Auspourg in high Germanie the daughter of Balshazzar and Ann Ursler: aged 29 Anno Dom: 1658.
Latin caption at right reads: Barbara uxor Iohannis Michaells Van Beck, nata Augustoe vindelicorum in Germania Superiori (vulgo Auspourge) ex parentibus Balthazaro et Anna Ursler: anno Christi 1629 Feb: 18.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Inserted after p. 288 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 : etching ; 231 x 154 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Portrait of a woman with hair growing on her face, standing three-quarter length by a portable organ.
Classification
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