Study for a Title-Page: Allegory of Commerce and a Debtor's Prison (?)
n.d.
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
About the Artist
Romeyn de Hooghe · 1645–1708
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...