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The Beggars ("Owlglass")
After: Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
Hendrik Hondius, the Elder (Dutch, 1573–1650)
Publisher: Hendrik Hondius, the Elder (Dutch, 1573–1650)
Hendrik Hondius, the Elder (Dutch, 1573–1650)
Publisher: Hendrik Hondius, the Elder (Dutch, 1573–1650)
1644
Medium/Technique
Etching with engraved inscription
Dimensions
Image: 17 × 14 cm (6 11/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 20.4 × 15.3 cm (8 1/16 × 6 in.)
Sheet: 20.4 × 15.3 cm (8 1/16 × 6 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK4688
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 159, copy; Hollstein 159, copy, I; Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 159, copy (e) by Hendrick Hondius; Hollstein, vol. IX (Hondius), 46
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, below image, lower center: Hondius excudit. 1644.
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in purple ink: S. R. KOEHLER; in black ink: S. R. K./From Cl.[?] G/[?] Whiffle./En eschange./1889; in graphite: Volbehr p. 40 #150 Eulenspiegel/copy C.; MFA Koehler Collection stamp in purple ink, with accession number in black ink: 4688
InscriptionsEngraved in plate, upper center, above image: LUCAS LEYDANUS INVENT.; below image: Dees eerste vorm is wech, men vinter geen voor Ons,/want een papiere druck, gelt vijftich Ducatons.
Provenance1889, Sylvester Rosa Koehler ( b. 1837 - d. 1900), Boston); 1898, his gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 20, 1898)