IDENTIFIERS
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id:	240036
accession number:	P.14989-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 9 January 2020
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After an oil on panel which was previously attributed to Quentin Massys (1465/6-1530) but which is now believed to be by a Follower of Marinus van Roymerswaele (c.1490-c.1567), known as The Misers (1548-51; Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 405707). Two men (identified as tax collectors) seated at a cloth-covered table, the figure on the right looking out towards the spectator and pointing to a ledger which his companion is filling in with a quill pen whilst examining a coin held in his other hand. The table is littered with coins, money bags and jewels. Writing paraphenalia is seen on the table to the left. A parrot sits on a perch behind the men to the left and a shelf above holds other ledgers and documents and an unlit candle.
title:	print

NOTES
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type: history note
value: VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in pen and ink on the verso presumably relates to Vansittart's own cataloguing system and that written in graphite to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240036





TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1770 - 1770
creation date earliest:	1770
creation date latest:	1770
culture:	18th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Earlom, Richard
maker: Boydell, John
maker: Massys, Quentin