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Pigritia (Sloth)

Lucas VORSTERMAN I, Adriaen BROUWER (after)
Pigritia (Sloth)
 (17th century)
plate 4 from the Seven vices series

Medium
engraving

Measurements
16.5 × 13.8 cm (image) 18.3 × 13.8 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein 120 ii/ii (Vorsterman I)

Edition
2nd of 2 states

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Wat is de luÿerdÿ? en nam sÿ ÿet ter hand? / Maer neen,sy haet het werck, ensoeckt haer eÿgenschand. / PIGRITIA

Accession Number
1278.249-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Another Work Human Figures

Subjects (specific)
idleness personification repose (activity) reproductive prints sin (religious concept) vice (culture-related concept) Vices (allegorical characters) women (female humans)

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