Print Description
In the caption verses in German, French and Dutch. Numbered: 4. Part of the second Dutch bound edition from 1720 (and related to the Windhandel in that year) of a series of caricatures of little people, known as The Dwarf Scene.
Made by Jacob Folkema after Jacques Callot.
Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 17 x 23 cm (6.69 x 9.06 inch). Image size: 10.5 x 13 cm. (4.13 x 5.12 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Larger tear with some paper loss at bottom right, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LITTLE PEOPLE-SATIRES-CARICATURES-DANCING-PAIR | PCO-C44-48
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From a set of 50. “Il Callotto resuscitato,” “Neu eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet,” or “Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid” published by Wilhelmus Koning in Amsterdam in 1716. A second ed. was published in 1720 as part of ‘Tafereel der Dwaasheid’.
Reference: FMH 3695.
Biography engraver: Jacob Folkema (1692-1767), a Dutch designer and engraver, was born and died at Dokkum, in Friesland. He was first instructed by his father, Johann Jakob Folkema, a goldsmith, and studied afterwards under B. Picart at Amsterdam. During that time he worked for Royaumont’s Bible, 1712, and Ruysch’s Anatomy, 1737. Folkema was also an excellent engraver in mezzotint.
Biography artist: The prints inspired by the prints by Jacques Callot.
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