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)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Secular emblems (Emblemata saecularia)
Artist: Johann Theodor de Bry
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Date: 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
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession year: 2012
Tags: Animals|Men|Women