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

Emblem 56

A farmer offers a pig's head to a ruler while gesturing to a pig inscribed 'ulterius'

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Compare: embmne_mig1591_045

Iconclass

• 23A33 future
• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25H11 mountains
• 25H213 river
• 25H23241 pillars of Hercules
• 26I6
• 25I9 landscape with ruins
• 31A247 looking over the shoulder
• 31A2512(+931) arm stretched forward (+ indicating, pointing at)
• 31A2515(+931) arm held downwards (+ indicating, pointing at)
• 31A25552(+931) index finger forwards, pointing, indicating (+ indicating, pointing at)
• 31A2621(+51) one leg in front of the other (+ standing)
• 31D14 adult man
• 41D221(+81) head-gear (+ men's clothes)
• 41D223(+81) clothing for the upper part of the body (+ men's clothes)
• 41D231(+81) trousers, breeches (+ men's clothes)
• 41D2339 barefoot
• 46A122(CHARLES V)3 armorial bearing, heraldry (CHARLES V) - device, motto
• 46A14 farmers
• 47I212(+945) pig (+ animals eating and drinking)
• 48C149 ruin of a building ~ architecture
• 48C161 column, pillar ~ architecture
• 49L71 scroll
• 49L8 inscription
• 51L4(+4) Progression, Forward Movement (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 56D3(+4) Confidence, Security, Tranquillity; 'Confidenza', 'Sicurezza e Tranquillità', 'Sicurtà', 'Sicurtà o Sicurezza', 'Tranquillità' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61B2(CHARLES V)3 historical person (CHARLES V) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (CHARLES V)
• 86(IN DIES MELIORA) proverbs, sayings, etc. (IN DIES MELIORA)
• 86(PLUS OLTRE) proverbs, sayings, etc. (PLUS OLTRE)
• 86(ULTERIUS) proverbs, sayings, etc. (ULTERIUS)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem056
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem056
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667