'Elck' or 'Everyman', study for a print; five figures labelled 'Elck' are rummaging through a pile of bales and objects, a bearded old man at centre wearing spectacles and examining a lamp, another figure searching in a sack in left background, another in a barrel in right foreground, and another at left in a basket, behind at right two 'Elcks' are having a tug-of-war, an army and tents in the distance.
Everyman
Artist
Production date
1558
Collection
Object number
1854,0628.36
Material
Pen and brown ink, contours incised
Inscription
Signed at lower left: [B]rueghel 1558; inscribed at upper centre, below in the picture: nymant en ckent sy selve[n] [nobody knows himself]; at upper centre, above in the picture: NEMO [in reverse] [no one]
Dimensions
24.1 cm x 20.8 cm
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