Long narrow engraved strip with small figures doing farm work in scenes across a landscape, with a text panel at the right end.

The Twelve Months, Engraved Frieze Strip

A long horizontal engraved strip divided into scenes of rural labour, with small figures working fields and tending the land under a sky with clouds. A cartouche at the right carries German-language verse text inside a decorative border.

Artist: anoniem
Date: 1584
Medium
Source: Rijksmuseum
Size: 4000 × 530 px

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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1584.
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

16th century 1580s 1584 engraving printmaking landscape cartouche twelve months harvest calendar print frieze rural labour agriculture anonymous