Study for a Title-Page: Allegory of Commerce and a Debtor's Prison (?)

Study for a Title-Page: Allegory of Commerce and a Debtor's Prison (?) by Romeyn de Hooghe

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, white gouache.

Dimensions

14 1/5 x 8 9/10 in. (36.1 x 22.6 cm); cardboard mount: 15 1/4 x 10 1/10 (38.75 x 25.7 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956

Accession Number

56.554

Tags

PrisonsPrisonersMen

About the Artist

Romeyn de Hooghe · 16451708

Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) was a Dutch Baroque engraver, draughtsman, and political satirist who became the most prolific and versatile graphic artist of the Dutch Republic in the late seventeenth century. Born in Amsterdam, he rose to become one of early modern Europe's most important printmakers and a pioneering master of political satire. De Hooghe's significance extends far beyond his techn...

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