W. Barthautz, Dutch
“Great Moments in Phallic Portraiture (Page 124),” Between 1700 and 1800
Pen, brown ink, brush, and watercolor on paper
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Other than he/she was an 18th century watercolor artist that used a pen with various color inks in addition to brushed watercolors, not much is known about the artist (no lifespan, etc.). Currently the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the museum of the Netherlands, owns 12 of his/her watercolor illustrations, including this one.
/// This man’s known to be honest, though shrewd.
But the cloth salesman hates being viewed.
He is treated with loathing
because fabric makes clothing,
and the readers here want their girls nude.
/// Fabric samples are kept in his pack,
bundled tightly without any slack.
His full pack, buyers note,
must be sewn to his coat
since its strap doesn’t go round his back.
/// Thrifty Gerda, with whom he now talks,
will negotiate for what he hawks.
She is “tight,” it is true,
like the tight toddler’s shoe
that’s the cause of a limp when she walks.
/// In a scene of a simple transaction,
she wants one bolt of cloth, not “some action.”
She has muscles, of course,
since she works like a horse.
He gets “fresh,” he gets put into traction.