The Tree Man

c. 1560–1600, first edition printed c. 1715

etching and engraving

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At the bottom of the composition Bosch portrays a painter, an astronomer, and an Aesopian figure (or fableist), practitioners who use illusion to convey the world’s truths, and might be interpreted as Bosch himself.

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