The devil confuses the yarn, 1652, 1652. Tis al verwart-gaeren (title on object), Beggars and peasants (series title), The devil confuses the yarn, 1652. A seated woman spins yarn that is spun from a spool by a man a reel is wound, behind him stands the devil who pulls the yarn and tangles it. Numbered bottom right: 1 and no. 29. Part of a series of prints of beggars and farmers., print, print maker: Pieter Jansz Quast, print maker: Pieter Nolpe, (rejected attribution), after design by: Pieter Jansz Quast, (mentioned on object), Northern Netherlands, 1638 and/or 1652, paper, etching

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