Axial Commons Image Treasury
Etching of villagers working in winter: butchering a pig by a fire, tending a cauldron and table near a half-timbered house, with hills and a town behind.

De twaalf maanden

An etched landscape of winter labour in a village square, with figures butchering a pig and tending a large fire beside a half-timbered house. Small figures work at a table and carry baskets, and hills and a distant town fill the background under an overcast sky.

Artist
Pieter van der Borcht (I)
Date
1545-1608
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 2920 px
Download full size
Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1608.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Español: Los doce meses: diciembre

Un grabado al aguafuerte de trabajos invernales en una plaza de aldea, con figuras que faenan un cerdo y atienden un gran fuego junto a una casa de entramado de madera. Otras figuras trabajan en una mesa y cargan cestas, y al fondo se ven colinas y un pueblo lejano.

Português: Os doze meses: dezembro

Uma gravura de trabalhos de inverno em uma praça de aldeia, com figuras abatendo um porco e cuidando de uma grande fogueira ao lado de uma casa de enxaimel. Outras figuras trabalham em uma mesa e carregam cestos, e ao fundo aparecem colinas e uma cidade distante.

More from The Zodiac and the Stars

Engraved title page: a robed man and a winged angel with a globe beside a diagram of orbits among stars, with Latin text in a cartouche below.Athanasius Kircher being guided by an archangel to the celestial spheres. Engraving by J.FBlack and white engraving of a winter landscape with bare trees, a well, cottages and a hillside town, with a small figure in a cloud at upper right.The month January and the sign of Aquarius, represented by a winter landscape, the dream oWoodcut of a nude man at center surrounded by zodiac signs and small figures, with printed German text listing favorable days at left.Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kHand-coloured 1844 engraving of Sheppard's Geographical and Astronomical Clock, with two circular rotating discs, a star chart, mountain peaks and printed text panels.Geography: two rotating discs (volvelles) showing the times at different places compared tOil portrait of a bearded man in a dark fur-trimmed gown with red sleeves, resting a hand on a table covered with diagrams.Simon Forman, astrologer. Oil painting after J. Bulfinch, ca. 1900.Four painted zodiac panels on a dark mount: a scorpion, a black bull silhouette, balance scales, and two fish.Four signs of the zodiac: Pisces (the fish), Libra (the scales), Scorpio (the scorpion) an