A man with a jester's cap on his head and glasses on his swollen nose (Meynaert Noes Wys = Meynaert Wisneus) sits before a lectern on which lies a book - opened, but with the cover up. Beneath the image nine lines of rhyming Dutch text, telling that Meynaert read wise books, did not become wiser, but did become more and more self-assured., De wijsneus Meynaert Noes Wys (title on object), Hendrick Goltzius, print maker: anonymous, Netherlands, (possibly), 1590 - 1610, paper, engraving, h 298 mm × w 204 mm

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