Collection online

print / book-illustration

• Object type

  • print
  • book-illustration

• Museum number

  1864,0625.47

• Description

  Plate 26 or Plate 1 of Fourth Part on Pulling Hair: Two men wrestling; the two wrestlers standing opposite each other and grabbing each other's hair; illustration to Nicolaes Petter's "Worstel-Konst" (Amsterdam: 1674)
  Etching

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Romeyn de Hooghe
  • Published by: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge I

• School/style

  • Dutch

• Date

  • 1674

• Production place

  • Published in: Amsterdam
  • (Europe,Netherlands,Holland,Noord-Holland,Amsterdam)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 178 millimetres
  • Width: 145 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered within image, at top centre: "IV.Deel". Numbered twice in top corners. The two wrestling men are indicated with "D" and "E".

• Curator's comments

  This is one from a series of seventy-one etchings, for comment see 1864,0625.22.

• Bibliography

  • Landwehr 1970 92-93
  • Hollstein 968-1038

• Location

  Not on display (157.d.1)

• Subjects

  • wrestling/wrestler
  • dutch costume 17thc

• Associated names

  • Illustration to: Nicolaes Petter

• Associated titles

  • Associated Title: Klare Onderrichtinge der Voortreffelijcke Worstel-Konst, Verhandelende hoemen in alle voorvallen van Twist in Handtgemeenschap, sich kan hoeden: en alle Aengrepen, Borst-Stooten, Vuyst-Slagen &c versetten. (Amsterdam, 1674)

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: Russell Smith

• Acquisition date

  1864

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1864,0625.47