Out of sight, out of mind

BRY, Johann Theodor de (Strasbourg, 1561 - Frankfurt, 1623), after Gillis van Breen and Pieter de Jode.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Engraving, 1596

108x83 mm.

Inscription: "PROSTITUIT VETULUS NUM MOSIOR AERE IUVENCAM".

Numbered in lower rigth: "56". Number 29 is crossed out.

A graphite inscription on the verso.

Paper with watermark.

Bibliography:

Hollstein Dutch 240-287

Bolte, J., "Bilderbogen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts", Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde, vol. 19, p. 77, Berlin: 1909

Inscriptión translation: "PROSTITVIT VETUVL NVM MOSIOR AERE IVVENCAM": The rich old man perverts the young girl with his money.

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