Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

BRY, Johann Theodor de (Strasbourg, 1561 - Frankfurt, 1623).

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Engraving, 1596

105x86 mm.

Inscription: "TENDIM. HOS LAQUEUS PRO NUTU, ET SOLIM. ILLOS".

Numbered in lower left: "31".

Paper with watermark.

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Bibliography:

Hollstein Dutch 240-287

La Nave de los locos 2022, p. 268

El poder de las mujeres 2023, 50

Inscription translation: "TENDIM. HOS LAQUEUS PRO NUTU. ET SOLIM. ILLOS": We extended our these traps so that they fell into them and we made them free.

Illustration to "Emblemata Saecularia" (Frankfurt, 1596).