A fisherman on a river bank offers a fish to a young woman and asks her for a favour. Engraving after M. van Cleve.

  • Cleve, Marten van, 1527-1581?
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[approximately 1570?]
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27990i
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A fisherman on a river bank offers a fish to a young woman and asks her for a favour. Engraving after M. van Cleve. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced September 2023 : A fisherman on a river bank offers a fish to a young woman. Engraving.

Description

She tells him that his fishing rod is too limp

Publication/Creation

[Antwerp?], [approximately 1570?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 15.5 x 15.5 cm

Lettering

Moch ich in ewrem Weierlein Fischen, wer freud dem Hertzen mein Zu Schlapff ist ewre Angelreuht. Darzu, ist auch das Aß nicht gutt.

References note

Ger Luijten 'Teljoren in druk: een prentreeks naar Maarten van Cleve met mannen en vrouwen in het rond', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 2001, 49: 153-169, 294-295

Notes

Probably a design made to be painted on a trencher by a specialist trencher-painter (Luijten, loc. cit.)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 27990i

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