Summer, from The Four Seasons

<p>Jan Saenredam’s <em>Four Seasons</em> engravings after his teacher Hendrick Goltzius’s drawings offer lush depictions of flora and fauna through changing times of year. The prints simultaneously follow a young girl and boy’s journey into adulthood. The discovery of the bird’s nest of <em>Spring</em> passes seamlessly into the harvesting of <em>Summer</em>’s ripe crops. <em>Autumn</em>’s root vegetables and fruits attract the interest of a full-grown goat and a pig, while the adults and their loyal hound skate the <em>Winter</em> away on a frozen river, oblivious of the sheep beset by a wolf in the background, or any of the season’s dangers.</p>