Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly, Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598, Engraving on white laid paper, Double head of two men, one of whom wears a fool's cap, in the center, embodying Pride and Foolishness, which form the theme of the representations in the outer circle: the wife upon the dragon of the Revelations of St. John; Phaeton's death; the original sin; Marcus Curtius jumping into the abyss; a woman with a looking glass; a peacock; monsters. Inscriptions in Low German and French., Netherlands or Belgium, ca. 1588, ornament

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