The Fool Mocked

Medium

Woodcut

Size

6 × 8.5 cm

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Inventory

RP-P-OB-4511HH(V)

Period

London, 1532–1543

Series

Old Testament woodcuts (Icones), no. 69

Attribution

Hans Holbein the Younger

The block was not used in the first Lyon Bible of 1538 but in a later printing, and this impression was later scribbled over in brown ink.

3840 × 2917 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.