Proverb posters & prints

Proverb Flemish School

The Wisdom of Fools, from Six Proverbs Jacques de Gheyn II

Twelve Proverbs, c.1558-60 Pieter the Elder Bruegel

Flemish Proverbs Pieter the Younger Brueghel

Reversing the Proverb John Tenniel

The Proverbs David the Younger Teniers

A Proverb - Letting the Cat out of the Bag, Pieter the Younger Brueghel

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559 Pieter the Elder Bruegel

A Proverb - To Fill up the Well After the Calf has Drowned, Pieter the Younger Brueghel

The Flemish Proverbs Pieter Balten

The Netherlandish Proverbs (The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World), 1559 Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Misanthrope Robbed by the World, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs, ca. 1568 Jan Wierix

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559 Pieter The Elder Brueghel

A pair of pigeons illustrating the proverb As Alike as Two Pigeons. Calcutta, India, early 19th century Unknown

Proverb: Ick bints not only, Baptista van Doetechum François van den Hoeye

Proverb 11 from the Follies Series, c.1815-24 Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes

A Dutch Proverb - A women feeding a bound cat, surrounded by men Haarlem School

The Dutch Proverbs Pieter Brueghel the Elder

The Older One Becomes, The Madder One Becomes, So Says the Old Man Master of the Prodigal Son

One Begs in Vain at the Door of the Deaf, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs, ca. 1568 Jan Wierix

Netherlandish Proverbs, c.1559 Pieter the Younger Brueghel

A Dutch Proverb: Het Syn Stercke Die Weelde Kunne Dragen (Only Strong Legs Can Carry Wealth) Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

A Flemish Proverb Pieter the Younger Brueghel

Parable of the two blind Hieronymus Cock

Flemish Proverb: Gluttony Pieter the Younger Brueghel

Patience as the Victor over Fortune from Six Sayings about Fortune, ca. 1560 Dirck Volkertsen Coornhert

A Shield is of no Use when Fortune Turns Her Back from Six Sayings about Fortune, ca. 1560 Dirck Volkertsen Coornhert

Two farmers in conversation Franco Estius

The Blind Leading the Blind, 1621-22 Domenico Fetti or Feti

Plate 18 from the 'Disparates':Birds of a feather flock together, ca. 1816-23 Francisco Goya

Triumph of Truth Joanni Medic

Promotional Print of Raymundus Berenger of Lorraine (1660), upper Pieter van Schuppen

Woman and three men Claes Jansz. Visscher II

The Master's Eye Makes the Horse Fat Jacob Jordaens

Plate 8 from the 'Disparates': The men in sacks, ca. 1816-23 Francisco Goya

Each believes his owl to be a falcon Franco Estius