Saturday, November 24, 2007

Various Beasts

Engraving by uknown artist, published by Pieter van der Keere in 1621.

"Description- An emaciated, dog-like monster with shrivelled breasts labelled 'Schreminckel aensicht' with a woman between its jaws in the foreground of a landscape."


Engraving by uknown artist, published by Pieter van der Keere in 1621.

"Description - Bigorne, a large, fat cat-like monster devours a man in a landscape. With other labelled figures, including a woman (Nÿdicheÿt) beating a man (Ian goetbloet) with a stick in the background and a crowd of hen-pecked husbands queuing up at right."


Engraving by Agostino Veneziano, 1515-1530.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is a joke against women - the fat monster is fat because it eats good men, the thin monster is thin because it only eats good women. Paul Rumsey.