Art Institute of Chicago
The Blind Beggar Tricked by Lazarillo
Thomas WyckLinkedCulture matchlcp-1750beae1a23
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 69767
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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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- Credit line
- Gift of Philip Pinsof
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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