Big Fish Swallow Small Fish, Pieter van der Heyden, after Pieter Bruegel (I), after Jheronimus Bosch, 1557
engraving, h 230mm × w 300mm More details
Seated in a boat in the foreground, a father is telling his son some harsh facts about the ways of world: the powerful oppress the weak, the rich devour the poor – or, as the legend explicitly states, ‘Big fish swallow small fish’.
