To a lazy man every day is a holiday

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

To a lazy man every day is a holiday.

Engraving, 1596

100x100 mm.

Inscription: "DESIDIAM IGNAVI SEQUIMUR, LENTUMQ SOPOREM".

Numbered in lower left: "4".

Paper with watermark.

Bibliography:

Hollstein Dutch 240-287

Inscription translation: "DESIDIAM IGNAVI SEQUIMUR, LENTUMQ SOPOREM": We lazy people are looking for indolence and sweet sleep.

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