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:
General | Height | 4.13 in (10.5 cm) |
Width | 3.54 in (9 cm) | |
Other dimensions | Formaat totaal: hoog: 16,5 cm, breed 15 cm |
Characteristics
Material | paper |
Technique | copper engraving |
Colour | white |
Finish | inkt, zwart |
Traces of use | geen |
Production
Continent | Europe |
Region international | Western Europe |
Country | Belgium |
Region national | Antwerp (province) |
Town | Antwerp |
Maker | Adriaen 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 (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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