"A cross between bear and horse wearing armour on l, a bee-hive on its head, piercing his chest with a spear; on right a human with a rabbit's head and one hand replaced by a crab's claw riding a tricycle; landscape background. Fourth of a series of four engravings of the seven deadly sins."
Inscribed upper right: '6 Ira/ 7 Pigritia' Two lines of verse below Ira: 'IRA regit nescit frenis... propria membra fodit.' Below Pigritia: 'Quid lepus et cancer? ... pigra notant.'
SOURCE: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1850-0223-476
Object: Ira/ Pigritia (Wrath and Sloth)
Series: The Deadly Sins
Date: 1590-1645
Print made by Jakob von der Heyden
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