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

Emblem 71

A lame man on the shoulder of a blind man

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_mig1591_emblem160

Iconclass

• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25G3(+21) trees (+ stem, trunk)
• 25H11 mountains
• 25H1124 boulder, stone
• 25H13 coast
• 25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
• 25H23 sea (seascape)
• 26A clouds
• 31A2321 leaning forward
• 31A244 head bent forward; bowing
• 31A2512(+931) arm stretched forward (+ indicating, pointing at)
• 31AA2512(+933) arm stretched forward - AA - both arms or hands (+ holding something)
• 31A25552(+931) index finger forwards, pointing, indicating (+ indicating, pointing at)
• 31A2711 walking
• 31A2733 being carried
• 31A41112 the halt leading the blind
• 31A415 crippled
• 31B6212 looking downwards
• 31D14(+72) adult man (+ two persons)
• 33A610 'Ajuto', 'Soccorso' (Ripa)
• 41D211(+81) dress, gown (+ men's clothes)
• 41D221(+81) head-gear (+ men's clothes)
• 41D233(+81) gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes)
• 41D263 walking-stick, staff, cane
• 41D268 bag
• 46A15:31A4111 the poor❧blind, blindness
• 46A16:31A414 the rich❧paralytic
• 46C11 road, path
• 46C1271 carrying a person on one's back
• 46CC24
• 46C513 'en route', traveller under way
• 47D8(ROPE) tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: rope
• 51EE1(+4) Dependence (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 54E11(+4) Necessity of Mutual Co-operation (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61B2(COTTON, Richard)3 historical person (COTTON, Richard) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (COTTON, Richard)
• 86(MUTUUM AUXILIUM) proverbs, sayings, etc. (MUTUUM AUXILIUM)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem071
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem071
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667