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December, with a landscape featuring the slaughtering of pigs
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December, with a landscape featuring the slaughtering of pigs

Jacob Matham · 1614 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

A vast landscape with much activity. Pigs are being slaughtered for the winter. Representation of the month of December. Print from a series of the twelve months. At the bottom a text in Latin. Subject categories within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Manners and Customs in a narrower sense. Popular life. Symbolic representations from popular life on series prints. Months and various (allegories).

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printDecember and its 'labours'
Credit lineDecember, met landschap met het slachten van de varkens. 1614. Jacob Matham. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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