Inscription
in plate, within image, below the figure of envy: INVIDIA.; in lower margin: INVIDIA HORRENDVM MONSTRVM, SÆVISSIMA PESTIS. [Envy is a monster to be feared, and a most severe plague]/Een onsterffelÿcke doot es nÿt / en wreede peste Een beest die haer seluen eet / met valschen moleste [Envy is an eternal death and a terrible plague, a beast which devours itself with false troubles]
Signed
within image, lower left: brueghel.Inuet; cock.excud.cum priuil.; right of lower center: P/AVE [monogram]
Marks
watermark [not identified]; MFA stamp with accession number in graphite: 64.716
Credit Line
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
about 1558
- Designed by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish, about 1525–1569
- Pieter van der Heyden, Netherlandish, 1525–1569
- Publisher Hieronymus Cock, Netherlandish, 1510–1570
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Bastelaer 130
Accession Number
64.716
Medium or Technique
Engraving