Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes (Leiden, 1586)

Emblem 46

Skulls roll in various directions when they fall from the apron of a woman; a horse

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Compare: Sam.65

Iconclass

• 11QQ712 church (exterior) - QQ - small church, chapel
• 25H113 (high) hill
• 26A clouds
• 31A211 (human) skull
• 31AA234 squatting, crouching figure - AA - female human figure
• 31AA244 head bent forward; bowing - AA - female human figure
• 31AA247 looking over the shoulder - AA - female human figure
• 31AA2512(+934) arm stretched forward - AA - both arms or hands (+ reaching for somebody or something, seizing something, touching)
• 31A2515 arm held downwards
• 31A2516(+933) arm or hand held in front of the body (+ holding something)
• 31AA27411(+0) releasing something - AA - female human figure (+ variant)
• 31AA2742 reaching for something - AA - female human figure
• 31D17(+72) old woman (+ two persons)
• 41D211(+82) dress, gown (+ women's clothes)
• 41D2321 apron
• 42E432 churchyard (around church)
• 42E44 care and visitation of burial place
• 46C13182 trotting (horse in motion)
• 51BB4(+4) Multiformity, Variety (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 52C11(+4) Opinion (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 53AA21(+4) Inconstancy; 'Incostanza', 'Instabilità', 'Instabilità overo Incostanza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61B2(WOODHOUSE, Henry)3 historical person (WOODHOUSE, Henry) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (WOODHOUSE, Henry)
• 86(VARII HOMINUM SENSUS) proverbs, sayings, etc. (VARII HOMINUM SENSUS)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem046
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem046
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667