Museum number:

APM 20.859

Subcollection:

prints and paintings

Title:

copper engraving

Keyword:

sitting smokers

Description:

Copper engraving with portrait size showing central on a seat a smoker who lights his pipe in a round brazier, a second man holds the brazier, on the far left a third person who has smoked a whirl, on the far right burns a fire, some firewood on the floor, along the lower edge outside the plate ''WEER AAN 'T SMOKEN, WEER AEN 'T STINCKEN, 'T IS NU EER TABACK TE DRINCKEN" (Again smoking, again stinking, it is now an honour (fashionable) to drink tobacco). In passepartout.

Date:

Period 1640 - 1660


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight4.13 in (10.5 cm)
Width3.54 in (9 cm)
Other dimensions Formaat totaal: hoog: 16,5 cm, breed 15 cm
Characteristics
Materialpaper
Techniquecopper engraving
Colourwhite
Finish inkt, zwart
Traces of use geen
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryBelgium
Region nationalAntwerp (province)
TownAntwerp
MakerAdriaen Brouwer (visual artist)
Acquisition
Year 2011
Provenance Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1971-2011, nr 438
Leiden, Will Tweehuijsen, 1971
Comments
Er bestaat een Franse editie met als onderschrift: "Le tabac purge le cerueau / soit d'un fol dun sage ou dun veau" en "Mariette excudit" (Pierre Mariette II uit Londen).
Literature
Georg Alfred Brongers, Van Gouwenaar tot bruyère pijp. Amerongen, 1978. p 97. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: Het aansteken van de pijp middels het vuurcomfoor. Gravure in de stijl van A. v. Ostade.
Exhibition
Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1978-2010, zolder.

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