Playing Ball, 1615
One in a series of popular prints engraved by Jan van Haelbeck circa 1615 under the title Enigme joyeuse pour les bons esprits (Amusing riddles for good spirits). The images, marketed to university students, illustrated poems in French that were full of indecent double-entendres. Here a man is inflating a ball for the game people are playing in the background
Picture No
14028602
Media ID
47829461
Size
3600px x 2799px
(3.9MB)
Credit
© Science Source / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Science Source
Date
1615
