[An old woman letting a boy light his candle] [graphic]

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16732927

Description

Title
[An old woman letting a boy light his candle] [graphic]
Alternative Title
Quis vetet apposito, lumen de lumine tolli, mille licet capiant, deperit inde nihil
Creator
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, printmaker
Contributor
Pontius, Paulus, 1603-1658, printmaker.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, artist, publisher.
Published / Created
[between 1620 and 1630]
Publication Place
Antwerp?
Publisher
Peter Paul Rubens
Abstract

"Old woman and a boy with candles; he leans over her shoulder from the right to light his candle; she holds a basket and shields the flame with her hand."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title devised by curator; alternative title from text below image.
Second state of the plate, with retouchings by Paulus Pontius. See British Museum online catalogue.
Place of publication inferred from primary city of activity for Rubens and Pontius; date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: S.7263.
Four lines of text in lower right corner: Cum Privilegiis Regis christianissimi serenissime infantis et ordinum confederat.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Mounted on page 36 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
With note ink in Richard Bull's hand, below image on mounting sheet: This print is supposed to have been engraved by Rubens and is very scarce.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : sheet 23.9 x 19.3 cm
Edition
[State 2].
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Etchings Belgium Antwerp 1620
Engravings Belgium Antwerp 1620
Material
etching and engraving laid paper ;
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
Belgium > Antwerp > 1620
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13404240
Object ID (OID)
16732927

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