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First Excuse: The New Field

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert · 1559-06-23 · engraving; paper

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

About this work

A servant of the king comes to the first guest and invites him to the wedding feast. The guest apologizes with the excuse that he has just bought a new field, which he must first go to inspect. Below the depiction is a reference in Latin to the Biblical text in Luke 14. This print is part of an album.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

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Credit lineEerste voorwendsel: de nieuwe akker. 1559-06-23. Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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