Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.

[Antwerp] : Philipp Galle, [1563?]

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.4 x 24.2 cm

Ingeritur mansum, incessum docet illa, loquelæ/ Os homini hæc format naturæ ut sponte nihil quá/ Fleresciat, sine doctrina, cum cætera cuncta/ Mox penna utantur, cursu, liquidoqúe natatu ... Lettering repeated in Dutch and French; the latter reads: "Le beste court, le poisson nage & vlotte/ Et l'oyseau scait sans quelque ayde voler:/ Mais rien propre à l'homme est que le pleurer/ Car sans l'apprendre il ne mange ou ne trotte" Bears number: 2

Wellcome Collection 26283i

One of a series of six engravings on the infirmities and sufferings of mankind (frame nos. 7805-7810)