Jaspar Isaac (c.1585-1654), The horn and antler vendor, published 26 Aug 1634. Engraving. Cassiano Type A mount, 23.2 x 15.9 cm (sheet of paper), RCIN 807487 © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2026 | Royal Collection Trust

An engraving of a man displaying his collection of horns, small curly ones and longer deer horns. He wears an open shirt and a tatty hat with horns tucked around its band. The gesture made by the vendor holding two pieces of horn refers to the cuckold, who is often describes as 'wearing the horns'. This print is the first in a group related to male virility and sexual symbolism in the Dutch Drolls album. The print is lettered above the image in a cartouche: " PIECES DE CABIMET A VENDRE / Vous qui n'estes fournys de ces belles antiques, / Messieurs, ne feignez point de marchander icy; / Les plus drolles souuent et les plus magnifiques / En acheptant, par fois en reuendent aussy"; along the bottom: "Jaspar Isac excudit / Auec Priuilege du Roy le 26 Aoust 1634".

This print is inlaid in folio 15 of the Dutch Drolls album (RCIN 970362). This album originally contained 99 prints on 72 folios, with the prints numbered 1-99 in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand on the mount sheet above each print. A number of other prints were added later, mostly on the versos of the existing sheets and on two additional folios at the end of the album (fols 73-74), probably during the nineteenth century.

For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 369.

Provenance: From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762