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

Emblem 110

A man is holding up a panel upon which a painter is drawing a human figure; a dog and a bull in pursuit of a fleeing man

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_sam1569_emblem130

Iconclass

• 25H11 mountains
• 25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
• 30
• 31A2352 sitting on an elevation
• 31A2511(+926) arm raised upward (+ despairing)
• 31A2512(+933) arm stretched forward (+ holding something)
• 31A2512(+939) arm stretched forward (+ other neutral connotations)
• 31A2516(+933) arm or hand held in front of the body (+ holding something)
• 31A2621(+53) one leg in front of the other (+ sitting)
• 31A27112 running
• 31A534 beard
• 31B6212 looking downwards
• 31D14 adult man
• 31D16(+72) old man (+ two persons)
• 33B9 flight, running away; pursuing
• 34B11(+949) dog (+ audible means of communication of animal(s): roaring, crying, singing, barking, mewing, neighing, chirping, etc.)
• 34B11(+952) dog (+ movements of animal(s))
• 34F1 animals threatening man
• 41A311 front façade
• 41A351 terrace
• 41A7211 stool
• 41D211(+81) dress, gown (+ men's clothes)
• 41D27 drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung'
• 46C11 road, path
• 47I2111(+95) bull (+ animal(s) in motion; positions, expressions of animals)
• 48C161 column, pillar ~ architecture
• 48C51121 painter making preliminary designs, sketching
• 52DD1(+4) Secrecy, Latency, Concealment; 'Secretezza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 57AA6141(+4) Untrustworthiness, Unreliability (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61B2(ALCOCK, Anthony)3 historical person (ALCOCK, Anthony) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (ALCOCK, Anthony)
• 61B2(FREAKE, Edmund)3 historical person (FREAKE, Edmund) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (FREAKE, Edmund)
• 86(FRONTIS NULLA FIDES) proverbs, sayings, etc. (FRONTIS NULLA FIDES)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem110
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem110
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667