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Gerard de Jode, `Use the time to work', c. 1570

Jode, Gerard de (illustrator)
Jode, Gerard de (graveur/engraver)
year: [1570]

type: prent
print
detail: nee
dimensions: afmetingen onbekend
related terms: boekhandels boekhandelaars
period: 16e eeuw
classification:
G: Boekhandel en uitgeverij

contents: This print is part of `The use and misuse of time', a series of four allegorical prints devoted to time with in the middle, the figure of Father Time, surrounded by a number of people devoting themselves to useful and honest pursuits. We see them, for example, forging, watching over sheep, making shoes, painting and spinning. To the far right a woman is selling books in a bookstall.

origineel:
©description: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
©reproduction: Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Rijksprentenkabinet




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