A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.

The monkey was a symbol of taste through contagion by its other symbols: it was a symbol of the fall of man, which was in turn due to its symbolic association with baseness, its distorted 'similarity' to man

The lettering refers to Ceres and Bacchus, Roman deities of food and drink

[Amsterdam] : [Assu. van Lond excu]

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 9.1 x 11.7 cm.

Ut bona gustus habet sic noxia multa palato / Munera sint Cereris sive ea Bacche tua / Dum gustant primi lethalia poma parentes / Ipsi in peccatum posteritasque cadunt. M. de Vos invent. N. de B. fe.

Wellcome Collection 26958i