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

Emblem 137

A grape-vine growing around an olive-tree

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_mig1591_emblem024

Iconclass

• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25G3(OLIVE-TREE)(+351) trees: olive-tree (+ bare plant)
• 25H11 mountains
• 31B59 sobriety; 'Sobrietà', 'Astinenza' (Ripa)
• 31B79
• 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden
• 41C7110
• 47I422:25G(+39)(CLIMBING) vine❧?
• 47I4222 bunch of grapes
• 52A51(+4) Wisdom; 'Sapienza', 'Sapienza humana', 'Sapienza vera' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 86(PRUDENTES VINO ABSTINENT) proverbs, sayings, etc. (PRUDENTES VINO ABSTINENT)
• 92C28(OLIVE-TREE) attributes of Minerva (OLIVE-TREE)
• 92L18(VINE) attributes of Bacchus: vine

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem137
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem137
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667