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Envy
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Envy

anonymous · 1575 · engraving; paper

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

About this work

Personification of Envy in the guise of a woman in a landscape. She sticks a heart in her mouth and holds a sword in her left hand. In the tree next to her a snake with the head of a bird. In the margin a one-line inscription in Latin.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printsnakesEnvyheart
Credit lineAfgunst. 1575. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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