Prints, Drawings, and Photographs The Blind Leading the Blind
Pieter van der Heyden, Flemish, c. 1530 - after 1572. In the
manner of Hieronymus Bosch, Netherlandish (active
Hertogenbosch), c. 1450 - 1516. Currently not on view |The
Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S.
Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts
(by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel
S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed
by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the
Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985| This
illustration of a parable about spiritual blindness and poor
religious guidance is accompanied by texts in Latin and French.
While Latin was the language of the educated classes throughout
Europe, French was widely spoken in the southern Netherlands
(modern-day Belgium), suggesting that this print was intended
for both learned and popular audiences. The Latin