Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding its tail aside, surrounded by onlookers spread around a stepped platform, from "Secular Emblems" (Emblemata Saecularia)

Johann Theodor de Bry · 1592–1614

Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding its tail aside, surrounded by onlookers spread around a stepped platform, from "Secular Emblems" (Emblemata Saecularia)

Engraving

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 1.0

Lindy Arts