Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652, printmaker
Published / Created:
Ao. 1605.
Call Number:
Print01226
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
[The barbershop].
Description:
Title and date from item., Alternate title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Sheet trimmed., At bottom right, stamp of Friedrich August II., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber shops, interior., and Pencil inscription verso.
Title from text engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Controller of the fortunate and miserable Lapis-seekers or searchers for the Philosopher's Stone., Plate numbered '8' within the image., Earlier text burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this state., Ten lines of verse below image: Men eyst miljoenen van elk schatryk actionist ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to John Law, 1671-1729., and Mounted to 27 x 20 cm.
Daniel Lambert who according to the caption weighed 739 pounds and died at the age of 40, sits on a sofa in a simply, but well-appointed room. He is fashionably dressed and his hat sits on the table beside the settee
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A Dutch soldier (left) and his wife (right), joining hands, dance round a tree of Liberty to music supplied by a foppish French soldier on the extreme left who beats a drum and blows a trumpet, and by a stout Dutchman on the extreme right who plays bagpipes inscribed 'Vader-lands Liefde' (Love of Country). The 'tree' is a pole surmounted by a milk-churn inscribed 'Vryheid \ Gellykheid \ Broederscha[p]', [This inscription (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) occurs on Dutch prints after the French invasion, e.g. Van Stolk, No. 5299; Muller, No. 5385.] above which is a cap of Liberty shaped like a fool's cap, and a tricolour flag inscribed 'Hollandia Regenerate[a]'. On the churn sits a parroquet, 'trying to imitate the patriotic accents of his French brothers'. A monkey climbs up the pole as in BMSat 8831. Texts, 'Acts', vii. 41, and 'Job', xviii. 16."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "1" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Dutch uniforms -- Dutchmen -- Holland: civil discord -- Tree of Liberty -- Cap of Liberty -- Emblems: dove as emblem of peace -- Monkeys -- Kitchen utensils: milk churns -- Musical instruments: drum -- Bagpipes -- Musical instruments: trumpets, and Letterpress explanation lacking.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The end of the stock-world., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Traces of earlier text burnished from plate visible at bottom center of image., Sixteen lines of verse in six columns in Dutch below the image: Wie dat verwaand te hoog wil vliegen ..., Plate 16 in: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., and Watermark in the left part of sheet.
BEIN: Imperfect: damp-stained., Added t.-p., engraved., First edition of the original, of which but few copies are known. Translated into Spanish in 1681, and thence into English, 1684 (where the name appears as Esquemeling) and into French, 1686 (with the name written Oexmelin) The work went through numerous editions in its various versions and formed the foundation for many of the histories and romances of the buccaneers published during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries., and Signatures: *⁴ A-Z⁴.
Title from caption above engraved text., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Two columns of verse in Dutch below image: Vrouw fama, bézig met de meerman te bekranssen ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: South Sea Bubble -- Mythology: mermen -- Mercury -- Holland as as windmill -- Neptune -- Mermaids., and Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the lower part.
Title from item., Place of publication derived from location of De Milanaise company., Date derived from design. The design had been modernized by 1930., Product advertised is a dry shampoo product that also protected against head lice., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Hair, Care and hygiene, Hair preparations, and Pediculosis
