Twelve proverbs posters & prints

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

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

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

The Flatterers Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Proverb Flemish School

The Proverbs David the Younger Teniers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parable of the two blind Hieronymus Cock

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

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559 Pieter the Elder Bruegel

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

The Dutch Proverbs Pieter Brueghel the Elder

The Flemish Proverbs Pieter Balten

Reversing the Proverb John Tenniel

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

The One to Whom Fortune Is Playing Will Dance Merrily from Six Sayings about Fortune, ca. 1560 Dirck Volkertsen Coornhert

Flemish Proverbs Pieter the Younger Brueghel

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559 Pieter The Elder Brueghel

Jesus and Mary among the Twelve Apostles Italian School

The Law of the Twelve Tables (Leges Duodecim Tabularum or Duodecim Tabulae), 1799 Anonymous

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

Netherlandish Proverbs, c.1559 Pieter the Younger Brueghel

Twelve-Symbol robe, detail Anonymous

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

Christ with the twelve Apostles James Jacques Joseph Tissot

The Twelve Days of Christmas, 1997 Linda Benton

Twelve Apostles Anonymous

When Fortune Is Abundant, the Fall Will Be Deeper from Six Sayings about Fortune, ca. 1560 Dirck Volkertsen Coornhert

The twelve apostles. England, mid-15th century Unknown