print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1876,0510.559
- Title
- Object: Ich bin der Unschuldige Niemand (I'm the innocent Nobody)
- Description
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A broadside criticising people who take no responsibility for their actions; with an etching showing an interior of a large kitchen, in the background an open door with a view of children taking apples from an apple tree, in the foreground a male personification of 'nobody', his mouth locked with a padlock, holding in his right hand a lantern, standing amongst a group of various damaged objects, on the left a female servant cooking without paying attention to the boiling pots, on the right a table from which dogs are taking food; with engraved title and verses in four columns. (Nuremberg, Trautner: [ca.1740])
- Production date
- 1740 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 293 millimetres
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Width: 345 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For an earlier broadside of same subject, see BM 1880,0710.929.
For further information on the subject, see G. Calmann,'The Picture of Nobody: An Iconographical Study' in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol 23, No 1/2 (Jan-Jun 1960), pp.60-104
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1876,0510.559