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Thomas Wyck

The Blind Beggar Tricked by Lazarillo

n.d.
Etching on ivory laid paper
12.7 × 11.4 cm (5 × 4.5 in)

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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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