The Blind Beggar Tricked by Lazarillo

<p>Thomas Wyck illustrated several scenes from the anonymous Spanish picaresque novella, <em>The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of his Fortunes and Adversities</em>. Treated as a heretical tract in Catholic Spain (where the Spanish Inquisition was still active), the tale was also published in Antwerp in 1555. In this etching, the unscrupulous protagonist is apprenticed to a blind man, on whom he practices the arts of stealing and subterfuge.</p>