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A caricature figure representing a street musician(?) with a mouse (lizard?) on his nose and a bird on his head

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A caricature figure representing a street musician(?) with a mouse (lizard?) on his nose and a bird on his head

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

Date
ca. 1640–60
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 in. × 8 3/8 in. (35.5 × 21.3 cm) Plate: 11 13/16 × 6 7/8 in. (30 × 17.5 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
2016.446
Credit line
Purchase, Sotheby's Inc. Gift and funds from various donors, 2016
Original Met record

Subjects and terms

  • Musical Instruments
  • Birds
  • Men
  • Mice
  • Musicians

The Met object ID 719417. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.