Travelling gypsies resting under a tree outside a village. Etching by Jacques Callot.

  • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.
Date:
1621
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46857i
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Travelling gypsies resting under a tree outside a village. Etching by Jacques Callot. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"Blancs, testons and pistolles" were types of coins

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[Place of publication not identified] : Garniere

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 12.2 x 23.3 cm

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Lettering

Vous qui prenez plaisir en leur parolles gardez vous blancs, vos testons et pistolles ... Callot in. Translation of lettering: You who take pleasure in their words, watch out for your blancs, testons and pistolles

Notes

Part of the series "Les Bohemiens" (the gypsies), a series of four etchings, ca. 1621

References note

Howard Daniel, Callot's etchings, New York 1974, no. 151

Reference

Wellcome Collection 46857i

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