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

Emblem 70

A chicken eating its own eggs, a cow with a basket of fodder

Quae ante pedesLatin

Things at our feet

To I. I. Esquier

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25H11 mountains
25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape
26A clouds
34B232(+936) fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.) (+ shell, snail-shell etc.)
34B232(+945) fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.) (+ animals eating and drinking)
34B232(+52) fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.) (+ female animal)
34B232(+991) fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.) (+ egg)
34B232(+9911) fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.) (+ egg-laying)
41A17 farm (building)
41A7751 container made of plant material other than wood: basket
41B162 smoke
42B0
44C110 'Amor della patria' (Ripa)
47I2112 cow
57A65(+4) Unselfishness (+ emblematical representation of concept)
58B21(+4) Human Life; 'Vita humana', 'Vita inquieta', 'Vita e l'animo' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
61B2(I. I.)3 historical person (I. I.) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (I. I.)
86(QUAE ANTE PEDES) proverbs, sayings, etc. (QUAE ANTE PEDES)

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem070
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem070
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667