Inscription
in plate, in image at bottom: .IHW.; in plate, in the image, vertically on the bone at left: Qui de receuoir a moijen, / Sur la machoire il ioue bien. (He who means to receive / Plays well on a jawbone); in plate, in the margin around image: Tis goet Ontfangher sijn - inden Crijch principael, Hij vult den Aessack - en men laudeert sijn sake, Al is sijn gagie groot noch weet hij sij v[er]hael, Hij hout hem heerlijck en speelt op die kake. (It is good to be the recipient of money due to a big war, / He fills his purse and one praises his business, Even if his pay is great, he knows his story, / He behaves honourably but still plays on the jawbone.) [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, notes 7 and 8].; on verso, in graphite, on hinge at upper right: B 173 / H 170 / 4; on verso, in graphite, on sheet at lower right: 1548 / Bast 173 / DTTH
Marks and Labels
Waldburg-Wolfegg'sches Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 2542) in gray ink; Albert van Loock (Lugt 3751) in purple ink
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.
Bibliography
- 1993
- The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Pieter Bruegel, Nadine Orenstein author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. A10.
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