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Better to blow hard than to burn the mouth
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Two charlatans in front of a table with bottles, pots and coins. One of them blows into a bowl with hot liquid. In the margin an inscription of two lines in Latin and in Dutch, from which it appears that the charlatan can be more careful to prevent misery. Depiction of the proverb 'better blown hard than the mouth burned'.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBeter hard geblazen dan de mond verbrand. 1590 - 1632. Pieter de Jode (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
