Kwakzalver at work, Johann Theodor de Bry, after Pieter de Jode, 1596 print A quack is behind a counter with different attributes. He has a bowl in his hand that he blows on. A woman and two men watch with open mouth. A young man warns his finger warning. The original meaning of the performance is the saying 'better blown hard than the mouth burned' (better to make a lot of crowds to prevent accidents than to suffer damage). The texts in the Emblemata Saecularia refer more to the saying 'Much shouting and little wool'. The poaching Kwakzalver speaks the words: Hoch Prang Ich Her und Ruhme Sehr
Kwakzalver at work, Johann Theodor de Bry, after Pieter de Jode, 1596 print A quack is behind a counter with different attributes. He has a bowl in his hand that he blows on. A woman and two men watch with open mouth. A young man warns his finger warning. The original meaning of the performance is the saying 'better blown hard than the mouth burned' (better to make a lot of crowds to prevent accidents than to suffer damage). The texts in the Emblemata Saecularia refer more to the saying 'Much shouting and little wool'. The poaching Kwakzalver speaks the words: Hoch Prang Ich Her und Ruhme Sehr/ Mein Grosse Art/ Reichtum und Lehr/ Ja Gross Scharey und little Woll/ Bey Mir Ist/ Wenn Mans Glauben Soll. Those who believe his words are disappointed and are thus characterized as gullible dumbbells. No. 25 from the first edition from 1596, no. 46 in the extensive edition of 1611. paper engraving Existence and Modes of Existence (+ emblematical representation of concept). proverbs, sayings, quack, charlatan, mountebank, 'saltimbanco'. blowing, to cool food before eating
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