A young man walking to left, facing right, supporting a yoke on his right shoulder, with both ankles bound and attached to a ball; representing joyful servitude. Collotype after an engraving attributed to A. Scultori (Ghisi).

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[between 1900 and 1999]
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34392i
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A young man walking to left, facing right, supporting a yoke on his right shoulder, with both ankles bound and attached to a ball; representing joyful servitude. Collotype after an engraving attributed to A. Scultori (Ghisi). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Leipzig] : [Inselverlag], [between 1900 and 1999]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 19.8 x 13.6 cm

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Lettering

Servus eo laetior quo patientior ASF Translation of lettering: The more the slave suffers, the more he rejoices

References note

A. Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Würzburg 1920-1922, vol. 15, pp. 239-240, Adam Ghisi no. 103 ("La servitude ... D'après André Mantegna")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 34392i

Creator/production credits

Initials ASF in the form of a monogram attributed by Bartsch to Adam Ghisi: A. Bartsch, loc. cit., and for other works with the same monogram, op. cit., vol. 9, p. 24, no. 18

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