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Johannes I van Doetecum

Saint Martin with His Horse on a Ship

c. 1561
etching on laid paper

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The artist of this boisterous scene combined a saint’s charitable act with all manner of excessive behaviors that takes place in a contemporary coastal city much like that where the print was made.

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