Avarice (Avaritia) from the series The Seven Deadly Sins, 1558, Engraving; first state of two, Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in. (22.6 x 29.5 cm), Prints, Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, ca. 1525–1569), After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels), Representing the vice of greed, this image belongs to a series of prints of the Seven Deadly Sins, engraved by Pieter van der Heyden after drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The personification of greed, a fashionably dressed woman, sits in the central foreground blithely gathering coins in her lap, while a poisonous toad lurks directly in front of her
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