Featured on PDR in the collection The Spinning Sow (1673)

In this seventeenth-century Dutch engraving a team of pigs are shown spinning flax, while in the corner a woman — who'd normally be associated with the work — sleeps. Across the top runs the rhyme "Die met gemack sijn kost wil winnen // Die set sijn Varcken aen het spinnen", which can be roughly translated as "He who easily wants to make a living / should put his pig to spinning". Rather than a serious suggestion for female empowerment through porcine labour, we can almost certainly take this to be satirical in tone. The artist here seems most likely to be referencing, at least to some level of remove, a popular medieval motif of the "spinning sow", an image with often distinct misogynist associations. As…