A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo.

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1658
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38974i
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A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Brussels Or. Antwerp] :

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 33 x 23.3 cm

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M. Angelus Bona ; 5 alta 4 lata. 12. v. Hoij d. v. Stieen s. S.C.M.

Creator/production credits

L. Dussler, Die Zeichnungen des Michelangelo, Berlin 1959, no. 589

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38974i

Reproduction note

After a painting after Michelangelo's drawing (Dussler loc. cit.), subsequently in the Prince's Gate Collection at the Courtauld Galleries

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