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The Blind Leading the Blind

c. 1561

Pieter van der Heyden

(Netherlandish, c. 1530–after 1572)
published by

Hieronymus Cock

after Hieronymous Bosch

(Netherlandish, c. 1450–1516)
Culture
Netherlands, 16th century
Medium
engraving
Support
Cream(3) laid paper
Measurements
Sheet: 22.5 x 25.8 cm (8 7/8 x 10 3/16 in.); Platemark: 22.2 x 25.5 cm (8 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Delia E. Holden Fund 1966.11
Catalogue raisonné
Hollstein 20 (IX.27)
State
i/v
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
A horizontally oriented black ink print depicts several men with light skin tones in a rural landscape. In the foreground, a man with closed eyes stumbles forward with a staff, clutching the shoulder of another man falling into a stream with a hurdy-gurdy. To the left, more figures lie near a thatched house. Shading is rendered through dense cross-hatching. Two blocks of cursive text sit at the bottom margin beneath the trees and birds.

The Blind Leading the Blind

c. 1561

Pieter van der Heyden, Hieronymus Cock, Hieronymous Bosch

(Netherlandish, c. 1530–after 1572), (Netherlandish, c. 1450–1516)
Netherlands, 16th century

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