The Oyster Shell: Satire on the Lives of Monks and Nuns
Artist
Pieter van der Heyden
(Flemish, ca. 1530–after 1572)
Date1562
MediumEngraving on laid paper
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches (19.7 x 28.3 cm);
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (21 x 29.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (21 x 29.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineAcquired through the Herbert F. Johnson, Class of 1922, Endowment
Terms
- Flemish
- Engraving
- Allegory
- Animals
- Bagpipes
- Birds
- Bodies of water
- Cats
- Clergy
- Dogs
- Fish
- Hats
- Kissing
- Lutes
- Meals
- Monks
- Musical instruments
- Musical notations
- Nuns
- Owls
- Oyster shells
- Pitchers
- Satire
- Vomiting
- laid
Object number85.032.003
Collections
Pieter van der Borcht I
Marinus Robyn van der Goes
after Adrian van der Kabel