A sumptuously dressed lady gestures towards a mid-air battle between winged fools; small injured figures fall from a bird-house like edifice. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.

Tobias Stimmer

Date:: [1580]

Reference:: 37468i

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Description

This print may have reaveled a message to contemorary readers regarding folly, which was greatly debated at the time, by Erasmus for example. Like the ship of fools, one play on this theme was that when a lady shook a tree, fools fell out and perhaps is elaborated upon here. The double pointed "jester" hat is visible on the little figures

Publication/Creation

[Frankfurt am Main] : [S. Feyerabendt], [1580]

Physical description

1 print : woodcut ; sheet 13.2 x 11.6 cm

Series

Der Ander Theil dess neuwen Kunstbuchs in welchem Reissen unnd Malen zu lehrnen allen Kunstliebhabenden zu Nutz an Tag geben, durch die kunstreichen und weit berühmten Jost Ammon und Tobias Stimmer

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Tobias Stimmer

Reference

Wellcome Collection 37468i

Notes

Woodcut in series: Der Ander Theil dess neuwen Kunstbuchs in welchem Reissen und Malen zu lehrnen allen Kunstliebhabenden zu Nutz an Tag geben, durch die kunstreichen und weit berühmten Jost Ammon und Tobias Stimmer, Frankfurt am Main: S Feyerabendt, 1580