print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.2552
- Title
- Series: Scenes from the story of Lazarillo de Tormes
- Description
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A blind beggar dancing around a pillar in the centre, holding a hat and a stick in his left hand and a cup in his right hand, being watched by bystanders, a barking dog to the right, fragments of classical columns in the foreground, the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli (?) and other buildings in the background; second state with monogram
Etching
- Production date
- 1631-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 131 millimetres
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Width: 116 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is an illustration from the story of Lazarillo de Tormes, an anonymous Spanish picaresque novel from the sixteenth century; for another book-illustration of this story see S.2554. For a counterproof see S.2553
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.2552
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.2552
