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| St. Martin with his horse on a ship. | ||||
| Engraving, c. 1561. 33.7 x 42.9 cm. Hollstein (Bosch) 16. 1(III). Riggs p.314. No. 10, New Hollstein Dutch (Doetecum) 217. 1(III). See also; Erwin Pokorny, Bosch’s Cripples and Drawings by his imitators. Masterdrawings, Vol.41, no. 3. |
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| Inscribed in the plate “Iheronimius bos inve” and “H.Cock Exc.” In the lower margin one line of text in Dutch; “De goede Sinte Marten is hier gestelt: onder al dit Cruepel Vuijl arm gespuijs: haer deijlende sijnene mantele, inde stade Va(n) gelt: nou vechten se om de proije dit quaet gedruijs.” (The good Saint Martin is shown here amidst cripples and other rabble, while sharing his cloak instead of money. Now they are fighting over the prey). |
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Most probably engraved by Joannes or Lucas van Doetecum after Bosch and published by Hieronymus Cock. Watermark; initials AR. Hieronymus Bosch did not make prints himself. Most of the prints we know are published by Hieronymus Cock, who worked c. 50 years later. All of them however are rare to find, especially in the early impressions like this one. |
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| St. Martin just left the city and is being besieged by beggars outside the gate. In the background a drinking party is taking place on a boat. Other vessels with fools and beggars are around. St. Martin’s generosity is employed as a contrast to and thus as a denunciation of the greed and excess represented by the beggars. This is also said in the text at the bottom. | ||||
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