# Gluttony (Land of Cockaigne)

- By: Peeter Baltens (Flemish, 1526/28–before 1584)
- Date: 1560s
- Medium: engraved copper plate
- Classification: Plate
- Culture: Flanders
- Credit line: Gift of FitzRoy Carrington
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.598)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1925.598/1925.598_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This copperplate was engraved with a lozenge-section burin in Antwerp (in present-day Belgium)—an important center for print publishing—in the 1560s. The subject is an imaginary land of ease and luxury, where food falls from trees (the Land of Cockaigne, or Luilekkerland in Dutch). To engrave, a copperplate is balanced on a sandbag. The sandbag allows the engraver to adjust the plate’s position while slowly guiding the burin to remove the copper. Rather than moving the hand in a pushing motion, the engraver forces the copperplate into the tool, rotating or tilting on the sandbag as necessary, while keeping the hand relatively still.