Die Bettler Zunfft (The Seven Beggars)
Plate 1 of 4 prints of beggars after Callot. Seven male beggars standing in a row in a landscape, four of them at right on crutches, one at far left carrying a flag lettered with 'Capitano di Baroni,'another beside him playing a hurdy-gurdy; church in background at right.
Artwork Details
- Title: Die Bettler Zunfft (The Seven Beggars)
- Series/Portfolio: Beggars : Four plates after Jacques Callot (New Hollstein 80-83)
- Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Artist: After Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592–1635 Nancy)
- Date: 1630
- Medium: Etching, only state
- Dimensions: 3 5/16 x 10 1/2 in. (8.5 x 26.7 cm)
cut on platemark - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
- Object Number: 17.50.15-344
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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