The word platbroeck could refer to a cowardly man and to a eunuch. Lafond compares the strings of the steerman’s harp (which he calls a lyre) to a spider’s web. Gossart classifies the engraving under the engravings that were published after Bosch’s death after his compositions. Similar engravings can be seen for example at:īonhams in London, Hampel in Munich 2018, Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Sotheby's in London 2012, the Saint Louis Art Museum Below, a Dutch four-line poem: Die in geselschap wilt van lichte vrouwen sijn, / Bij sanck en snaeren-spel in luijardije leven: / In overdaet gevult met lacker spijs en wijn, / Compt met dees blauw schuÿt licht tot calis aengedreven (He who wants to be in the company of frivolous women / and to lead a lazy life with singing and string music, / excessively filled with tasty food and wine, / will soon arrive in Calis with this blue boat). In the lower left corner: Hieronÿmus – Bos – Inuentor. The boat has the inscription (in capitals): Die blav schvyte. Above, in capitals, the Latin, French, and Dutch inscriptions: Navis ad perditionem vehens / Le bateau qui meine a la perdition / Het schip van bedervenis (The ship of perdition). It reads: Daer platbroeck speelman is en stierman in de bane / Daer sien hem de voghelen voer eenen huÿben ane / En al tiert sijn gheselscap datse moghen sweeten / Het sullen de sanghers in de blau schuÿte heeten (literal translation: ‘Where Flatpants is minstrel and steersman of the journey / There the birds think he is an owl / And although his companions yell until they sweat / They will be called the singers in the blue boat).Ī second state of this engraving was published by Johannes Galle in Antwerp in around 1650. Below, a Dutch four-line poem accompanies the engraving. In the lower right corner we read: Cock – excudebat – 1559 – cum gratia et privilegio. Somewhat more to the right we see the monogram PAME, which refers to the engraver Peter van der Heyden (Petrus a Merica: ‘heide’ in Dutch = ‘merica’ in Latin = ‘heath’ in English). In the lower left corner we read: Hieronÿmus – Bos – Inuentor (which suggests that the engraving was made after a design by Hieronymus Bosch). The boat shows the inscription: Die blau schuÿte (The blue boat). This engraving was first published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp in 1559.
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