Before there were Prints and Tablets and Internet the drawing tablet was often a plate of copper or iron for etching and engraving as well as wooden engravings.
One of the most noted early Netherlandish engravers was Pieter Breughul the Older who before he shifted back to the paintings he is famous for spent about a decade being known for drawings and engravings.
This one is a drawing but it is very typical of his engraving style as he seems to have done drawings copied by others onto engraving plates and this particular drawing shows the the influence of Bosch.
The work is called Desidia - Sloth in English.
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