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The Sense of Touch
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The Sense of Touch

Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1581 - 1656 · engraving; paper

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

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Woman as personification of the sense of touch, sitting in a landscape with a parrot on her hand and a turtle on the ground. In the background the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise is depicted. In the margin below two lines of Latin.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printtortoises, turtlesornamental birds: parrot
Credit lineZintuig gevoel. 1581 - 1656. Nicolaes de Bruyn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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