dpd_1467
On a pedestal with a cock on one corner and a burning oil-lamp on the other (attributes of Mercury and Minerva, respectively) a landscape with two men cutting the (hard) rocks at the foot of a mountain (Dutch: 'Hardenberg' = 'hard mountain') in the background shepherds with a flock
LABOR OMNIA VINCIT IMPROBVS (LA)
Iconclass notations
25D3(+2)
mining (+ stone)
25G3
trees
25H11
mountains
25H171
mountain meadow, alp
31A2743
hitting at something
31D14
adult man
34B232(+51)
fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.) (+ male animal)
41B34(+1)
oil-lamp (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle)
46A170:5(+6)
Labour❧Abstract Ideas and Concepts (+ situation or event (especially in genre-painting) with symbolical connotation)
47D8(AXE)
tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: axe
47D8(PICKAXE)
tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: pickaxe
47I221
herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.
47I2211
herd, flock
48C244(+0)
pedestal of a piece of sculpture (perhaps in the form of a herm) (+ variant)
49L8
inscription
83(VERGILIUS, Georgica, I 146)
(VERGILIUS, Georgica, I 146) specific works of literature (with AUTHOR, Title)
86(LABOR OMNIA VICIT IMPROBUS)(+0)
proverbs, sayings, etc. (LABOR OMNIA VICIT IMPROBUS) (+ variant)
92B58(COCK)
attributes of Mercury (COCK)
92C28(OIL-LAMP)
attributes of Minerva (OIL-LAMP)
86(LABOR OMNIA VICIT IMPROBUS)
proverbs, sayings, etc. (LABOR OMNIA VICIT IMPROBUS)