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Shrove Tuesday
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Interior of a kitchen with a merry company, an old woman baking waffles at the hearth (Carnival). On the left a man with a lute, on the right a drinking monk with a nun. In the foreground right a jester is being shaved, in the foreground a dancing dog in a jester's hood. Above the hearth a print with an owl as a pilgrim. With inscription of two columns, on the left six lines in French and on the right five lines in Dutch.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineVastenavond. 1567. Pieter van der Heyden. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
