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This artwork is known as ‘The Sheep’s Head’ and is meant as a tribute to Dordrecht and its residents. The artist is unknown. Since the Middle Ages, the people of Dordrecht have been called ‘sheep’s heads’ (schapenkoppen). The name probably stems from a medieval legend about two men who tried to smuggle a sheep dressed in human clothes into the city to evade tax. The phrase ‘Hoe dichter bij Dordt, hoe mooier het wordt’, which translates as: ‘The closer you get to Dordt, the more beautiful it becomes’, is a play on the well-known, negative saying ‘The closer you get to Dordt, the worse it gets.’