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The Beggar's Inn: P.1806-1991

Object information

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Titles

The Beggar's Inn

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Serwouters, Pieter
Draughtsman: Vinckeboons, David (After)

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Production date: AD 1608

Note

II/II.

School or Style

Flemish

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Plate Height 278 mm Width 358 mm
Sheet Height 278 mm Width 358 mm
Verso

Techniques used in production

Engraving

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: SME TSENDE BEDELARS / D LASERVS CLEF
  • Location: Image upper centre, on inn sign
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: DVBoens Inventor.
  • Location: Image lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: Cornelus Jansen excudit
  • Location: Image lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: 1608
  • Location: Image lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Date
  • Text: PSwouter: fe: [P and S interlaced]
  • Location: Image lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature

Inscription present: Four lines of text in two blocks of two lines

  • Text: Qui semel innocuum detersit fronte pudorem, / Mollicie vincit saepe datoris opes. // Illi solet populi consumere dona benigni/ Indulgens genio nocte dieq[uem] suo
  • Location: Plate lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Die eens schaemt en Eer ter Kerken heeft gebracht, / Leeft boven sijn gevers in Luijer weelden zacht: // S' volex miltheijt versmetst hij avond en Morgen. / En laet sorgeloos den vogelkens zorgen.
  • Location: Plate lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Serwouters
  • Location: Lower right
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Peter Serwouter -
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: no 71 Jul [?] 26 94
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Type: Inscription

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.1806-1991
Primary reference Number: 86220
Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 17 II/II
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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