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Black and white engraving of a wooded landscape with oxen pulling a plough, a bull in the cloudy sky, and a winding road to a distant village.

Aprilis: April landscape with plough oxen and zodiac bull

An engraving of a wooded landscape labelled APRILIS along the lower edge. A bull, a zodiac sign for April, leaps across the cloudy sky above, while oxen pull a plough at right and figures walk a winding road toward a distant hilltop village beneath tall trees.

Artist
Simon Frisius
Date
1611
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 3019 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1611.
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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