Quack at work, Johann Theodor de Bry, 1596 Canvas Print
A quack stands behind a counter with different attributes. He has a bowl in his hand that he blows on. A woman and two men look on with their mouths open. A young man raises his finger, warning. The original meaning of the performance is the proverb 'better blown hard than the mouth burned' (better to make a lot of fuss to prevent accidents than to suffer damage). The texts in the Emblemata Saecularia refer more to the proverb 'a lot of shouting and little wool'. The boasting quack speaks the words: Hoch prang ich her und ruhme sehr/ Mein grosse Kunst/ Reichtum und Lehr/ Ja gross Geschrey und weinig Woll/ Bey mir ist/ wenn mans glauben soll. Those who believe his words are deceived and are thus characterized as gullible. Nr. 25 from the first edition from 1596, no. 46 in the extended edition of 1611.
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