‘Varkens die spinnen’ (Pigs are Spinning), woodblock protest print with the message “The Great Mortality among the Westphalian Wives / how that the Pigs should spin / to win a living for the men”.
The print is a animal allegory in which pigs must spin because of the shortage of women due to the war waged by Bernard von Galen, the bishop of Munster in Westphalia. Netherlands 1673
