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Catalogue number: Bartsch 212.
The lovers in the dark enclosure to the right cannot be seen in the reproduction. There is another couple at the left side, : a fisherman with his line in the water, and a woman seated beside him on the bank with a basket. There are a number of seventeenth-century Dutch prints in which couples are shown in the vicinity of fishermen. The captions invariably play on the suggestive connotation of fishing as seduction and intercourse. There are a number of seventeenth-century Dutch prints in which couples are shown in the vicinity of fishermen. The captions invariably play on the suggestive connotation of fishing as seduction and intercourse.
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