The Merry Shoemaker, 1695

Not on View

Medium

etching

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 25.2 x 18 cm (9 15/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 14

Accession Number

1984.88.2

Artists / Makers

Cornelis Dusart (artist) Dutch, 1660 - 1704

Jacob Gole (publisher) Dutch, 1660 - 1724

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Corn.Dusart.fecit / et invent.; across bottom in plate: De Vermaarde Schoemaaker.; lower left in plate: J. Gole exc. cum Privil.Amstelodami.; lower right in ink: 1251; lower left verso in grap hite: C36287 / 62 (circled); lRv//in black chalk: 3185.

Provenance

John Tetlow [died before 1840], Lancashire, England (Lugt 2868)

Associated Names

Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.
Tetlow, John

Exhibition History

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 37.

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 37.