PLATE IV.—CONDEMNATION TO LABOUR.
Holbein, to mark at once the species of labour which is the lot of man, and that which falls to the share of the woman, represents Adam employed in rooting up a tree, along with Death, who helps him with all his might; and at a little distance Eve suckling her child, and holding a distaff.
Maledicta terram in opere tuo, in laboribus comedes cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ donet revertaris, &c. Gen. iii. 14.