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Blind Beggar Bumping A Pillar
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Blind Beggar Bumping A Pillar

17th century

Medium

Etching with drypoint; third state of three

Dimensions

Sheet: 5 3/16 × 4 5/8 in. (13.1 × 11.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collect- ion, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Thomas Wijck

1616–1677Dutch Republic

Thomas Wyck is best known for painting scenes of popular life set in the squares and courtyards of Rome; he continued to paint such scenes even after he returned to the northern Netherlands. Comment on works: Marines; Genre; Interiors