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Big Fish Swallow Small Fish
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Seated in a boat in the foreground, a father is telling his son some harsh facts about the ways of world: the powerful oppress the weak, the rich devour the poor – or, as the legend explicitly states, 'Big fish swallow small fish'.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineBig Fish Swallow Small Fish. 1557. Pieter van der Heyden. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
