Time between work and laziness

MARTIN DE VOS (1532-1603) (design);

RAPHAËL SADELER (ca. 1560- ca. 1632) (drawing and engraving)

Netherlands, 1582.

Burin on laid paper with watermark with coat of arms on the right.

Below the image: Praemia virtutum Solers Industria donat, / Largitur tacito Gandia multa finu. / At Pager flagris, et Paupertate maligna / Arquitur lentoe crimine Pigritiae. M. de vos inventor R. Sadler sculps. et excud.

Good state of preservation. Paper has been restored and reinstated. On the reverse, pencil drawing.

Ref.: Hollstein, v. 46, 1.265. H. XXI, 210; Cas., p. 305, 9; Brussels 1992, n. 68; Veldman 1992, p. 244.