Title: 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
Date: 1592–1614
Portfolio: Secular Emblems (Emblemata Saecularia)
Artist:  Johann Theodor de Bry 
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Artist role: Artist
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
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Animals, term: Men, term: Women