Proverb illustration posters & prints

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

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

Proverb Flemish School

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

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

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

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

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

Reversing the Proverb John Tenniel

The Flemish Proverbs Pieter Balten

Four Beggars Anonymous

Flemish Proverbs 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

Illustration of Dutch Boy with His Finger in a Leaking Dyke Grace P. Smith

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

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

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

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559 Pieter the Elder Bruegel

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

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559 Pieter The Elder Brueghel

Beggars Anonymous

The Proverbs David the Younger Teniers

Netherlandish Proverbs, c.1559 Pieter the Younger Brueghel

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

The Dutch Proverbs Pieter Brueghel the Elder

A Flemish Proverb Pieter the Younger Brueghel

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

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

Flemish Proverb: Gluttony Pieter the Younger Brueghel

Two farmers in conversation Franco Estius

Big fish eat small fish Hieronymus Cock

Plate 7 from the 'Disparates': Disorderly Folly, ca. 1816-23 Francisco Goya

Dulle Griet raiding Hell David III Ryckaert

Tiger Anonymous

Illustration of Aesop's fable The Fox and the Crane William Burges

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