Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Hals, Dirck, 1591-1656.

Description

1. 5 prints ; etching; 20 x 24 cm.

Summary

1. Aristocratic man peering through telescope as woman and another man look on; couple listening to man playing violin; man presenting woman with flower, dog sitting at their feet; man smoking, woman drinking, and monkey eating a melon; man and woman sitting together in front of hearth, man touching woman's breast, as servant turns down bed. Some images show individuals in gardens.

Subject

1. Aristocracy (Social class)
2. Courtship
3. Dogs
4. Eating & drinking
5. Flowers
6. Gardens
7. Hearing
8. Interiors
9. Monkeys
10. Music > Performance
11. Household employees
12. Senses and sensation
13. Sex
14. Smell
15. Taste
16. Touch
17. Vision

Genre/Form

1. Allegories.
2. Etchings.
3. Prints – Dutch – 17th century.
4. Genre prints.

Call number

1. Arents Prints 96-22

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.
2. Prints numbered, each with legend in Latin naming sense depicted, and on print 1: D. Hals, Inventor, C. Kittensteyn, fecit in margin, and C. I. Visscher, execudebat, in image.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Detailed finding aid available.

Author

1. Kittensteyn, Cornelis van, etcher.

Title

1. The five senses, after Dirk Hals [graphic] / D. Hals, inventor; C. Kittensteyn, fecit.

Imprint

1. [Netherlands] : C.I. Visscher, [1650?]

Indexes

1. Detailed finding aid available.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Hals, Dirck, 1591-1656. Artist

Research call number

1. Arents Prints 96-22