Identification title(s): allegory of vanity (young lady with mirror and putto). Object type: print object number: rp-p-1944-1547. Catalog reference: new hollstein dutch 125. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso bottom center, stamped: lugt 2228. Description: vanitas representation in the form of a woman, dressed in expensive clothing, admiring herself in a hand mirror, a dog on her lap, a monkey at her feet. On the table next to her jewelry and a board game. A putto climbs through the window behind the lady with a banderole that reads 'vanitas vanitatum, est omnia vanitas'. Below the scene two lines of text in latin. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: jacob de gheyn (ii) (mentioned on object), publisher: jacob de gheyn (ii) (mentioned on object), writer: hugo de groot (mentioned on object). Dating: 1595 - 1596. Physical features: engraving. Material: paper technique: engraving (printing process). Dimensions: top: h 279 mm × w 184 mm. Subject: what: 'vanitas' symbols(woman) looking in a mirror ~ scene symbolizing 'vanitas'. Acquisition: unknown 1944. Date: between 1595 and 1596.
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