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The Blind Beggar Tricked by Lazarillo
Thomas Wyckn.d.
- Attribution
- Thomas Wyck Dutch, 1616-1677
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Plate: 12.7 × 11.4 cm (5 × 4 1/2 in.); Sheet: 24.1 × 19.1 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Philip Pinsof
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Thomas Wyck illustrated several scenes from the anonymous Spanish picaresque novella, The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of his Fortunes and Adversities . Treated as a heretical tract in Catholic Spain (where the Spanish Inquisition was still active), the tale was also published in Antwerp in 1555. In this etching, the unscrupulous protagonist is apprenticed to a blind man, on whom he practices the arts of stealing and subterfuge.
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