Lot Essay
Other drawings engraved for Jacob Cats book are in the Prentenkabinett, Leiden and in the Teylers Musem, Haarlem (for Hollstein 353-4, 359, 366, 371, 379, 382 and 389).
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A quack dentist removing a tooth from a seated woman in a market place
Details
Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne (Delft 1589-1662 The Hague)
A quack dentist removing a tooth from a seated woman in a market place
signed '...V:'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, the outlines incised, pen and brown ink framing lines
4 3/8 x 5½ in. (110 x 141 mm.) (2)
A quack dentist removing a tooth from a seated woman in a market place
signed '...V:'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, the outlines incised, pen and brown ink framing lines
4 3/8 x 5½ in. (110 x 141 mm.) (2)
Engraved
By an anonymous engraver, in reverse, for Jacob Cats, Ouderdom, Buyten-leven en Hofgedachten, op Sorgh-vliet, Invallende Gedachten, Amsterdam, 1656, p. 86 (Hollstein XXXV, no. 381), an impression sold with the drawing.