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Ian vander Veens Zinne-beelden, oft Adams appel : verciert met seer aerdige const-plaeten ; mitsgaders syne oude ende nieuwe ongemeene bruydt-lofs ende zege-zangen

Veen, Jan van der, 1578-1659, Savery, Salomon, 1594-1665, engraver, Cloppenburch, Evert Jansz, 1611-1643, printer · 1642 · T'Amsterdam : By Everhard Cloppenburgh, boeck-vercooper op't Water · 52 pictures

Jan van der Veen's 1642 Dutch emblem book, published in Amsterdam by Everhard Cloppenburgh for a general reading public, pairs Dutch verse mottoes with engraved scenes, several engraved by Salomon Savery. The pictures are small black-and-white copperplate engravings of everyday domestic and rural scenes, with a few figures in doorways and landscapes, showing how a moral idea can be staged in a simple narrative image that a designer could adapt for a caption-driven layout.

Epithalamia · Poetry, Dutch · Emblems

Internet Archive · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library