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Menschelyke Beezigheeden
Title
Menschelyke Beezigheeden [graphic].
Publication
[Haarlem, Netherlands] : [Ambrosius Scheevenhuizen], [1695]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving; plate mark 15.6 x 10 cm, on sheet 21 x 16 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title from item.
Date, printmaker, artist, and publisher from copy in British Museum, museum number 2AA+,a.57.1. This print differs in that the text below image is six lines of verse in Dutch.
Frontispiece to series: Menschelyke beezigheeden (Human occupations).
Below image are six lines of verse in Dutch: Menschelyke Beezigheeden. Hier ziet gy door de Konst verbeelt, 't gewoel van 't Menschelyke leven: In hondert Prenten af gedeelt ...
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Summary
"Title-page with title lettered in a banderole at top, held by a group of putti; seated Minerva with a headscarf at centre, a snake coiled up around her left arm; at right, a large canvas and a putti looking into a mirror, at left, two putti crowning a globe; in the foreground, an array of objects, including a painter's palette, a book, a statuette and a bag filled with coins; in the background, a harbour scene with cloaked figures." -- from British Museum catalog.
Variant and related titles
[Human occupations]
Format
Images
Language
Dutch
Added to Catalog
January 23, 2024
References
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700, v. 381-480
Subjects
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Engravings.
Frontispieces.
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