Silenus Alcibiadis, sive, Proteus : vitae humanae ideam, emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens
Silenus Alcibiadis, sive, Proteus is a 1618 emblem book printed in Middelburg by Johannes Hellenius, its verses by Jacob Cats with engravings after designs by Adriaen van de Venne, written for a Dutch reading public. Its circular copperplate scenes show a moralising pictorial idea in three variations, with figures in landscape, trees, and water carried across each plate. A designer might take from them the compact round format and the economical hatched line used to build a whole landscape and its mood.
