Original 19th-century English engraving of The Mountebank: a quack holds forth on a stage in a village square, surrounded by neighbors, while at the left a woman pushes a sick man in a wheelbarrow. After the painting by Jan Havicksz. Steen.
Original 19th-century English engraving of The Mountebank: a quack holds forth on a stage in a village square, surrounded by neighbors, while at the left a woman pushes a sick man in a wheelbarrow. After the painting by Jan Havicksz. Steen.
The print comes from Allan Cunningham's gallery of pictures published in London by George Virtue in the 1830s, and is accompanied by the original text leaf from volume II, with the commentary the work devotes to Jan Steen.
Medium: Line engraving on paper
Artist / after: Jan Havicksz. Steen (c. 1625-1679)
Engraver / lithographer: Andrew Duncan (active c. 1834)
Date: 1834
Source: London, George Virtue; Allan Cunningham's gallery of pictures, vol. II
Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 in (27.4 x 20.6 cm)
Condition: Good. Light toning of the paper and a few very faint foxing spots in the margins. The text leaf is included