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Etching of a bird with spread wings on a grassy hilltop, with small towers and figures on a flat horizon.

Monastic Life in Emblems

An etched landscape shows a large bird with outspread wings perched atop a grassy mound, with faint hatched wisps rising beneath it. Small towers and distant figures stand on the flat horizon under a hatched sky, in a fine black-line print.

Artist
Jacques Callot
Date
1621-1635
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 3074 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1635.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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