La science des hieroglyphes, ou, L'art d'exprimer par des figures symboliques, les vertus, les vices, les passions & les mœurs, &c. : avec diferentes devises historiques : ouvrage utile aux peintres, aux statuaires, aux graveurs & aux amateurs des arts qui dépendent du dessein
La Science des hieroglyphes is a 1736 emblem book published in The Hague by Jaques van den Kieboom, compiled by Daniel de La Feuille and François de Kaarsgieter for painters, sculptors, engravers and art lovers. Its pages are grids of numbered circular medallions, each with a small engraved allegorical figure and a French caption naming a virtue, vice or passion. A designer could draw on these compact figure groupings and emblematic props, such as a heart, a balance, or a crowned woman, as a ready vocabulary for symbolic imagery.
