Description
This print depicts three male characters, beggars, who walk together. An elderly man holding a cane in his right hand rests his left hand on the shoulder of a seated man in the foreground who is smoking a pipe. Behind this man is another seated figure wearing a hat.
Made by after an anonymous artist.
Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 8 x 10 cm (3.15 x 3.94 inch). Image size: 7.5 x 9.1 cm. (2.95 x 3.58 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Small margin. Remains of glue on corners in reverse. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
BEGGARS-HAT-PIPE-MAN-SMOKING | RBOS-A10-06
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published ca. 1650.
Biography engraver: Jacques Dassonville (1619?1670). Jacques Dassonville, also known as Jacques Dassonneville, Jakob Dassonneville or Jacques D’Assonneville, was a French draughtsman, engraver and painter of the seventeenth century.
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