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Job on the Dunghill
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Job on the Dunghill

Philips Galle · 1563 · engraving; paper

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

About this work

Job sits on a dunghill and is visited and mocked by his friends and his wife. His friends sit in sack and ashes: they have strewn ashes on their heads. Below the image an explanatory text in Latin. This print is part of an album.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineJob op de mesthoop. 1563. Philips Galle. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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