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. Colorized
Picture No
50658545
Media ID
50658545
Size
3600px x 2799px
(4.8MB)
Credit
© Science Source / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
No Model Release
Source
Science Source
Date
1615
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1615 Balls Bons Joyeuse Pour Recreations Seventeenth Weird
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