Veelvraat en Drinkeboer

Two robust figures are shown in a close-up composition, feast items like a roast bird, bread, and grapes spread before them. The man on the left holds a drinking cup, while the woman on the right brings a piece of food to her mouth, both wearing leafy garlands associated with Bacchus. The scene is rendered with the bold, rhythmic line work characteristic of late 16th-century Northern engraving.

This print functions as a moralizing allegory on the vice of Gluttony (Gula) and the Four Temperaments, specifically satirizing the 'Phlegmatic' or 'Sanguine' types in excess. Within the Western esoteric context, such depictions serve as a 'speculum' (mirror) for the viewer to recognize the lower animal appetites that must be mastered to achieve the philosophical state of temperance required for the Great Work.