One Begs in Vain at the Door of the Deaf

c. 1568

Johan Wierix

Artist, Flemish, 1549 - 1618 or after

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Hope and Julian Edison

  • Dimensions

    plate (diameter): 17.8 cm (7 in.)
    sheet: 17.8 × 17.8 cm (7 × 7 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.114.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. A12, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Princes of Waldburg Wolfegg, Wolfegg (Lugt 2542); Albert van Loock [1917-?], Brussels (Lugt 3751); Hope and Julian Edison [1929-2017], St. Louis; gift to the NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. A12, state ii/ii.

Inscriptions

in plate, in margin around image: Vrienden sijt sober, maer maect ghoede chier, Al vallet my suer ghebeden denct int ronde: Isser gheenen wijn daer sal wesen ghoet bier, En dat sulcks oock goet is voor de ghesonde. (Be sober, friends, but cut a dash / Although it's hard on me to begging / If there's no wine, there'll be good beer / And that's good for the health too.) [translation by Wouter Bracke from Maarten Bassens and Joris van Grieken, eds., Bruegel in Black and White: The Complete Graphic Works. Brussels: KBR, 2019, p. 269, note 15.]; on verso, in graphite, on hinge / at upper left: no 6; on verso, in graphite, on hinge at upper right: B 177 / H 172; on verso, in graphite, on sheet at lower right: 1550 / Bast 177 / DTTH

Markings

Waldburg-Wolfegg'sches Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 2542) in gray ink; Albert van Loock (Lugt 3751) in purple ink

Watermarks

none

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