Cruelty

The female personification of Cruelty (Crudelitas) sits on a sack from which the collected grain is spilling out. She hands a loaf of bread with a fish to a dog, and a stone with a snake to a young child. In the tree behind her sits an owl with a burning heart in its beak. On the left in the background, a river with rapids. On the right in the background, a view of a village. On a field, a woman scatters food for pigs. In the margin, a six-line explanatory poem in Dutch, Latin, and French.