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Man making excuses not to attend the Great Banquet, A

Maker

(artist)
1498-1574

(engraver)
1522-1590

(publisher)
1600-1676

Title

Man making excuses not to attend the Great Banquet, A

Date of Production

1558-1559 / 1674

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2960.262

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: lower right corner within image, black ink: "MHeemskerck Inventor, // DVCoornhert sculpsit"; lower centre edge, black ink: "Villam emi, et neceSe habeo exire et videre illam: rogo te, habe me excusatum. Luc.14.18.". Mount, Recto: lower left corner, black print: "Theatrum Biblicum, 1674.".

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