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Greed

anonymous · 1575 · engraving; paper

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

About this work

Personification of Greed in the guise of a woman in an antique toga, seated in a landscape by a wall. In her right hand she holds a money bag and with her left hand she feels in a money chest standing next to her. On the right front a frog. In the margin a one-line inscription in Latin.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

Subjects

print tailless amphibians: frog purse, money-bag Covetousness

Credit lineGierigheid. 1575. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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