Identification title(s): allegory of love and impotence. The glasses. Object type: print object number: rp-p-ob-60. 149. Catalog reference: hollstein dutch 41 copy. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark; verso lower right, stamped: lugt 2228. Description: allegory of love and impotence: a young couple embraces each other, while the woman gives glasses to an old man. In the margin a twelve-line poem in french and a ten-line poem in german, which explain the performance. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: anonymous, after a print by: pieter perret. Place of manufacture: unknown. Dating: 1565 - 1675. Physical features: engraving. Material: paper technique: engraving (printing process). Dimensions: plate edge: h 219 mm × w 216 mm. Subject: what: eyeglasses, spectacles(personifications and symbolic representations of) love; 'amore (secondo seneca)' (ripa), potency and impotency. Acquisition: unknown. Date: between 1565 and 1675.
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