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?
Date:
[approximately 1570?]
Reference:
27990i
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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

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

Notes

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

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

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Wellcome Collection 27990i

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