The element earth, personified by the nude goddess Cybele. Cybele wears a wall crown and holds a bunch of flowers in one hand and in her other hand a model of a city. She is surrounded by the fruits of the earth and the personifications of life and death, a newborn and a skeleton respectively. In the background the animals of the earth in a vast landscape. The print has a Latin caption. The print is part of a four-part series on the four elements. Earth The four elements , print maker: Adriaen Collaert, Maerten de Vos, publisher: Gerard de Jode, (mentioned on object), Antwerp, 1580 - 1584, paper, engraving, h 186 mm × w 235 mm