The Seed Received among the Thorns
Medium
engraving
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
L. E. Holden Fund
Accession Number
2023.128.3
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
This is one of a series of four prints portraying the biblical parable of the sower, made in Antwerp (in present-day Belgium) at the end of the 1500s. The parable compares types of soil to people in the world: one hardened; one fickle; one distracted by things of the world; and one with an open heart, ready to accept God. The third sower (here, portrayed as a pilgrim) distractedly throws seeds among thorns. He is surrounded by two female personifications—Cares of the World, and Avarice (extreme ...