Letter S: een poepende putto, Caspar Merian, after Hans Holbein (II), after Ambrosius Holbein, 1676

Title(s)

Letter S: een poepende putto
Illustraties uit de Lof der Zotheid (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-21.835

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 43

Artist

• print maker: Caspar Merian
• after drawing by: Hans Holbein (II)
• after drawing by: Ambrosius Holbein
• publisher: Johann Rudolf Genath

Dating

1516 and/or 1676

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / letterpress printing

Measurements

height 26 mm × width 25 mm

What

• initial
• cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
• defecation

Who

• Desiderius Erasmus

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

• The drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger for Erasmus' "Praise of folly"