Two farmers walk around an apple orchard. The front man admires a large apple tree with a straight trunk, but which bears only small fruit. The other man grabs one of the large apples hanging from the branches of a smaller tree with a crooked trunk. Content is as important as form. The reverse side of the print bears a Dutch text from the following page, Not the form, but the fruit Life lessons from nature , print maker: Marcus Gheeraerts (I), (attributed to), publisher: Gerard de Jode, printer: Christoffel Plantijn, print maker: Southern Netherlands, publisher: Antwerp, printer: Antwerp

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