Sloth (Desidia), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins, 1558, Engraving, Sheet: 8 15/16 x 11 5/8 in. (22.7 x 29.6 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 sloth, 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 sloth, a shabbily dressed woman, demonstratively sleeps away the time in the central foreground, resting her weight on the back of an ass
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Sloth, Desidia, series, Seven Deadly Sins, 1558, Engraving, Sheet, 8 15/16 x 11 5/8, 22.7 29.6 cm, Prints, Pieter van der Heyden, Netherlandish, ca., 1525–1569, After Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Breda, Brussels, Representing, vice, sloth, image belongs, prints, engraved, van, der, Heyden, drawings, Bruegel, Elder, personification, shabbily dressed, woman, demonstratively sleeps, away, time, central foreground, resting, weight, back, ass
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