Den theater des bedroghs ofte de listige onstantvastigheyt des werelts : voerende voor iaer-schrift wat wonder deel,, ist aersch thooneel, waer dat gewis,, geen stant en is : aen gewesen door verscheyde historien, geschiedenissen, iaer-schryvende sinnebeelden ; voor desen noyt gedruckt in onse Neder-lantsche taele ; verciert met vele schoone kopere plaeten
Den theater des bedroghs is a Dutch-language emblem book printed in Brussels in 1744 by Jacob van de Velde, compiled by Michael Vermeren and others from earlier emblematic sources. Its pictures are small copperplate emblems pairing a scene, such as a figure beside a bare tree or a trap in a woodland, with a motto, and a designer might take their compact framed vignettes, arched cartouches and allegorical staging as models for layout.
