Il [mondo] e [per] lo piu [gabbia] di [matti] / Giuseppe Ma. Mitelli inv. dissegno, et int. In Bologna 1654.
Summary
Print shows a large cage containing all manner of men, from scientists and musicians to the dregs of society. Sitting outside on the top of the cage are Fortune, whom all desire to reach, and the artist, busily engaged in sketching the "follies of human nature."
Purchase (Hubbard Fund 70-27); Walter Schatzki; (DLC/PP-1970:042).
Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 189.
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Date
01/01/1654
Contributors
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718, artist
Source
Library of Congress
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