Each believes his owl is a falcon, Hendrick Goltzius (attributed to workshop or), after Karel van Mander (I), 1590 - 1594 print A man sits on the floor and looks through his glasses at the owl on his hand (and thinks a falcon is seeing). Behind him two fools, each with a marot (narrow) in his hand. The proverb image the idea that everyone thinks they have or be the best. Under the show a explanatory Latin verse by Franco Estius and a Dutch text in book print. paper engraving / letterpress printing proverbs, sayings, owls. eyeglasses, spectacles. fool, simpleton, numskull

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