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The ill-matched couple

BRY, Johann Theodor de (Strasbourg, 1561 - Frankfurt, 1623), after Peter de Jode and Gillis van Breen.
The ill-matched couple.
Engraving, 1596
105x85 mm.
Inscription: "DUCERET UT VETULAM IUVENIS, FACIT AMPLACRAMENA".
Numbered in lower rigth: "33".
Paper with watermark.

Bibliography:
Hollstein Dutch 240-287

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Inscription translation: "DUCERET UT VETULAM IUVENIS, FACIT AMPLACRAMENA": a busy purse allows the young man to marry the old woman.

Illustration to "Emblemata Saecularia" (Frankfurt, 1596).