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

Emblem 88

The wife of Anellus with the miller

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_sam1569_emblem197

Iconclass

• 25H21 water course
• 31A2421 head turned to the left
• 31A2422 head turned to the right
• 31A2512(+918) arm stretched forward (+ caressing, courting, making love)
• 31A2513 arm stretched sidewards
• 31A26114(+51) standing, leaning, sitting or lying with legs apart (+ standing)
• 31A534 beard
• 31D14 adult man
• 31D15 adult woman
• 33C227(+0) lovers brought together by a third person (+ variant)
• 33C233 (lovers) embracing each other, 'symplegma'
• 42D30 'Castità matrimoniale', 'Fede maritale', 'Matrimonio' (Ripa)
• 42D39 adultery
• 47B192 miller
• 47D41 watermill
• 47I1451 hay-wagon
• 47I1471 storing in sacks ~ harvest
• 55CC11(+4) Greed, Covetousness, Cupidity; 'Cupidità' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 56D29(+4) Misplaced Trust, False Confidence, 'Pax Falsa'; 'Speranza fallace' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61B2(ANELLUS)3 historical person (ANELLUS) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (ANELLUS)
• 86(PRAEPOSTERA FIDES) proverbs, sayings, etc. (PRAEPOSTERA FIDES)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem088
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem088
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667