# "Better to blow hard than to burn the mouth"

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## Artwork

- Artist: [JODE, Pieter de, I](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jode-pieter-de-i-r78fe22eb0c83c9>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Engraving, 211 x 146 mm

## Commentary

This print is an illustration of the Dutch proverb &#34;Beter hard geblazen, dan de mond gebrand&#34; \(English equivalent: Better safe than sorry\).

## Related artworks

- [James VI, King of Scotland](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jode-pieter-de-i-r78fe22eb0c83c9/james-vi-king-of-scotland-rc8c1af3f170d8d>)
- [St Jerome in a Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jode-pieter-de-i-r78fe22eb0c83c9/st-jerome-in-a-landscape-re13fecbd762d80>)
- [St Jerome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jode-pieter-de-i-r78fe22eb0c83c9/st-jerome-r31ca5816d28b11>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)