Inscription
in margin below image, in plate: Aspice qùam suaeves quareat sibi turba levésque / Rustica delicias, celebrans Encaenia Baccho. / Nulla Sacerdoti reverentia, nulla Dynastae, / Cum quovis jugiter potius sua Gretula saltat. (Look at the way the rustic crowd seeks sweet and transient delights while celebrating the foundation feast of Bacchus. They reverence neither priests nor rulers, for their [the mob's] Gretchen dances with whoever she pleases.) [translation from Keith Moxey, "Peasants Warriors and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation," (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), p. 54.]
Bibliography
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- Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge
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