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

Emblem 63

Two men try to wash off the colour of a black man's (an Ethiopian's) skin

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_mig1591_emblem059

Iconclass

• 11R5 (personifications of) 'Vanitas', the vanity of human life; Fragilità humana, Fugacità delle grandezze & della gloria mondana, Meditatione della morte, Opera vana, Piacere vano, Vana gloria, Vanità (Ripa)
• 26A clouds
• 31A2321 leaning forward
• 31A2352 sitting on an elevation
• 31A247 looking over the shoulder
• 31A2512 arm stretched forward
• 31A2512(+933) arm stretched forward (+ holding something)
• 31A2515 arm held downwards
• 31A2621(+51) one leg in front of the other (+ standing)
• 31A2621(+53) one leg in front of the other (+ sitting)
• 31AA54 washing and bathing - AA - in the open air
• 31A5462 brush, sponge, etc. (toilet articles)
• 31A5463 towel
• 31B6212 looking downwards
• 31D14(+89) adult man (+ nude human being)
• 31D14(+73) adult man (+ three persons)
• 32B31(+51) European peoples (+ men)
• 32B321(ETHIOPIAN)(+51) (ETHIOPIAN) peoples of sub-Saharan Africa (ETHIOPIAN) (+ men)
• 41A773 container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase
• 41D211(+81) dress, gown (+ men's clothes)
• 41D233(+81) gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes)
• 41D2339 barefoot
• 44E14 utilitarian, public pump or water fountain
• 48A9843 lion's head ~ ornament
• 52BB42(+4) Impossibility (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 86(AETHIOPEM LAVARE) proverbs, sayings, etc. (AETHIOPEM LAVARE)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem063
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem063
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667