Johann Theodor de Bry

Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding its tail aside, surrounded by onlookers spread around a stepped platform, from 'Secular emblems' (Emblemata saecularia)

1592–1614
Engraving
10.5 × 9.6 cm (4.1 × 3.8 in)

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