The Dream of the Doctor
Details
Bartsch 76; Meder 70 d-e (from f); Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 18 d-e (from f). Provenance:
Dr Konrad Liebmann (1927-2019), Osnabrück, on the reverse with the stamp (not in Lugt);
since then in family possession.
Descrizione
Excellent, clear and sharp impression, after the scratch from the monogram to the foot, through the ball to the bench. With a fine margin around the borderlines, trimmed at the upper edge just outside of it. This sheet was created in the 15th century. A devilish demon is blowing unchaste dreams into the ear of the apparently wealthy loafer sitting by the stove with a bellows. In the vernacular, the hot place behind the stove is also called the “hell’s bench”, and not without good reason. In the hot dream, a naked female figure with long flowing hair appears to the corpulent man in an antique contrapposto. At the bottom left, little Cupid struggles on stilts and it is easy to recognise Venus in the seductive figure. “Idleness is the beginning of all vice” – this is the moral message of this engraving with the misleading title “The Doctor’s Dream”. – The lower left corner set in, the borderlines traced there. The lower right corner thinned on the reverse. A tiny repair to the centre of the left edge, where the line has been inconspicuously redrawn. The upper left corner with a faint thinning on the reverse. Tiny stains on the reverse, otherwise in good condition.
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