Behold kind husbands weary of their lives. And one (by chance) good, 'mongst a world of wives / R. Elstracke sculp.

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Renold Elstracke
active 1590-1630
Behold kind husbands weary of their lives. And one (by chance) good, 'mongst a world of wives / R. Elstracke sculp.
engraving
image: 372 x 510 mm; plate mark: 375 x 512 mm; sheet: 377 x 515 mm
Peel 0001
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[London] : Sold by Robert Pricke, [1620; later impression between 1669 and 1698]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Bibliography: 
Hind, A. M. Engraving in England in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1955) II, p. 210-13.<br>O'Connell, S. 'The Peel Collection in New York'. Print Quarterly, XV, March 1998, p. 66-67.
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6 columns of verse below image.
Watermark: unknown.
The engraving by Renold Elstracke was originally entered in the Stationers' register on July 10, 1620, to publisher William Butler. This is evidently a later impression with the imprint of London printseller Robert Pricke (died 1708) who was active in the trade between 1669 and 1698.
Not in BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.

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