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Satire on Hygiene
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Interior with an old woman (Fey Sawbers/Margot) making sausage. For hygienic reasons she wears a cap over her nose. A man (Heintzman/Jannot) with a jester's cap points at her and laughs uproariously at the fact that she tries with the cap to prevent a drop from her nose falling on the sausage. In the background a wild boar warming itself by a fireplace. In the margin a fourteen-line poem in dialogue form, in German and in French.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineSatire op hygiëne. 1574 - 1637. Crispijn van de Passe (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.