79/5337 Bary, Hendrik (1640-1707). An old woman, emptying a pot through the window (Het goore Besje). Etching after F. VAN MIERIS, 22x17,7 cm., engr. captions, upper margin laid down on glass.

- Surface dam. (silverfish), w. loss of image (1x with hole in blank margin). New margins.

= Hollstein 10, the fifth state (of 5). Mirror of everyday Life 71: "This is a case of realism taken to extremes and of a bylaw flouted, as any contemporary viewer of this print of an old woman emptying a chamberpot out of her window would have realised straight away. Those with a more erudite cast of mind might also have associated it with certain flights of poetic fancy from a distant past (...)."