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 : Woman at Hand Loom, 1615


Woman at Hand Loom, 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 woman is working at a hand loom

Picture No
14028603
Media ID
47829354
Size
3600px x 2806px (4.3MB)
Credit
© Science Source / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Science Source
Date
1615

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1615 Amusing Bons Indecent Joyeuse Loom Marketed Poems Pour Pre-industrial Riddles Spirits Weaving


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