Proverb posters & prints

Proverb Flemish School

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

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

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

Flemish Proverbs Pieter the Younger Brueghel

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

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

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

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

The Flemish Proverbs Pieter Balten

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

Reversing the Proverb John Tenniel

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

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

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559 Pieter the Elder Bruegel

Parable of the two blind Hieronymus Cock

Disparates, ca. 1816-23 Francisco Goya

The Dutch Proverbs Pieter Brueghel the Elder

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

The Proverbs David the Younger Teniers

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

Four Beggars Anonymous

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

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

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559 Pieter The Elder Brueghel

Netherlandish Proverbs, c.1559 Pieter the Younger Brueghel

A Flemish Proverb Pieter the Younger Brueghel

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

Flemish Proverb: Gluttony Pieter the Younger Brueghel

Beggars Anonymous

Woman and three men Claes Jansz. Visscher II

Triumph of Truth Joanni Medic

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

Two farmers in conversation Franco Estius

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

Knight putting a bell on a cat Pieter the Younger Brueghel