Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding its tail aside, surrounded by onlookers spread around a stepped platform, from 'Secular emblems' (Emblemata saecularia)
Johann Theodor de Bry
1592–1614
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 4 1/8 x 3 3/4 in. (10.5 x 9.6 cm) sheet: 4 11/16 x 4 5/16 in. (11.9 x 11 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.658
Tags
AnimalsMenWomen
About the Artist
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1561–1923
Comment on works: copper engraver