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PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
print
Passe, Crispin Van de; Voss, Martin Le
Europe: Netherlands
c.1600
paper; wood; tortoiseshell
overall: 269 x 288 mm
1999.414
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
Passe, Crispin Van de; Voss, Martin Le
Europe: Netherlands
c.1600
paper; wood; tortoiseshell
overall: 269 x 288 mm
Monochrome print (etching) of an old man, an alchemist, seated with bellows on his lap, holding a pair of nose spectacles and stirring a mixture of molten gold on a fire. He turns around to face an attractive woman who reaches for a valuable chain on a table. In a modern tortoiseshell-panelled frame.
1999.414
BOA Purchase, 1938