A Shield is of no Use when Fortune Turns Her Back from Six Sayings about Fortune

A Shield is of no Use when Fortune Turns Her Back from Six Sayings about Fortune

Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

1555 - 1565 Print

2013.118.3

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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