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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)

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Engraving, Secular Emblems (Emblemata Saecularia)
Secular Emblems (Emblemata Saecularia), Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Phyllis Massar 2011
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Title: 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)
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Engraving, Secular Emblems (Emblemata Saecularia).

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