O Adam, had you not bitten into this fruit, O Eve, had you not beenware of Satan's trick, Death had not sat in the tree of knowledge, It had not brought so much disaster to the world (title on object), Adam and Eve at the tree of knowledge. Adam takes an apple from Eve's hand. Eve accepts a second apple from the snake coiled around the tree. In the background a deer and a parrot. A skull at the top of the tree. Numbered top right: N. 54., print, publisher: David Du Mortier & Zoon, (mentioned on object), after print by: Hans Sebald Beham, print maker: anonymous, publisher: Leiden, print maker

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