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Discordia: The Bad Household

Maker

After
(artist)
1532-1603

(printmaker)
1565-1637

(publisher)
1600-1676

Title

Discordia: The Bad Household

Date of Production

1589

Dimensions

Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 24 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2724

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, within image: “DISCORDIA. //”; lower left, within image: “M. de Vos figurauit //”; lower right, within image: “CriSp. vande PaSs Sculp. et excud. A. 1589 //”; lower margin: “Melior est buccella sicca cum gaudio / Quam domus plena victimis cum iurgio / De peu vault mieux La JouiSsance / Que par meSure Ou Ltrecuidance / Ein Mundtll beSser iSt mit freijdt / Dan vberfluSS mit zorn vnd leijdt / Prouerb. 17.a. [illegible] . / BELLI SED RABIES, QVICQVID PAX ALMA MINISTRAT. DIRIPIT, INVERTIT. CVNCTAQVE CAEDE REPLET. //”.

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