Idea de un principe politico christiano, representada en cien empresas : dedicada al principe de las Españas nuestro señor
A 1655 Antwerp printed emblem book by Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, with engravings by Johann Sadeler, offering one hundred Spanish-language emblems on the education of a Christian political prince, addressed to the heir to the Spanish crown. Each page pairs an ornate cartouche frame with a motto banner and a small symbolic scene such as a crown on a globe, a column with ships, or a tree in a landscape. A designer might take the strapwork cartouches, scrolling ornamental borders and the compact allegorical vignettes as models for emblematic layout and framing.
