<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Harlequin on a ladder].</dc:title><dc:date>[not before 1680]</dc:date><dc:language>zxx</dc:language><dc:description>Harlequin, wearing a costume decorated with tools and animals of the conjuring trade, balances on a ladder facing right. The laughing audience is seen beyond the edge of a wooden stage in front of a sheet screening the scene, suggesting a street performance</dc:description><dc:description>Title devised by cataloger.</dc:description><dc:description>Place and date of publication suggested in dealer's description.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Seemingly a reversed copy of a Dutch print by Cornelis Dusart between 1680 and 1704; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Sheepshanks.3796.</dc:description><dc:description>Possibly a reverse copy produced in England?</dc:description><dc:description>Another, larger copy was made by Pieter Schenck (1660-1711).</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>