The Pedlar II

[poliphilo]

 Here's the other version of the Pedlar- the one painted on the back of the wings of The Haywain.



There's still a gibbet on the horizon, but the other details are different; there's no tumbledown bordello, instead we have a traveller being robbed by banditti and a couple dancing to the music of a piper, the little dog is fiercer and in the left foreground the bones of what I think is a horse are being picked over by carrion crows.

This is how the world is, says Bosch, and if you want to know more just open the doors and I'll show you.....