Accession number:
PML 146639, p. 296 (facing)
Published:
Amsterdam : Syn te bekomen by Adriaan Schonenbeek [i.e. Schoonebeek], [1689?]
Description:
1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark: 272 x 189 mm; sheet: 286 x 197 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from engraved caption.
Caption continues: tot Harlshoussen in Switzerland geboren is lank 2 Voet en 7 Duym en 39 jaer out int jaer 1689.
Inserted after p. 296 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Portrait of "Hans Worrenbergh" (also known as Hans Wormberg or Wormbergh), who was reputed to have stood 31 inches high, full length, facing slightly to the left, in court dress and holding a cane; at left, a wood box with a hinged door and single shelf is shown.
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