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

Emblem 155

Narcissus kneels at a stream, admiring his own reflection

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• In Alciatus' Emblemata the motto of the emblem is: "Philautia" (Gr.)
• Related emblem in another book: embmne_mig1591_emblem069

Iconclass

• 25G11 groups of trees
• 25G3(+21) trees (+ stem, trunk)
• 25G41(NARCISSUS) flowers: narcissus
• 25H11 mountains
• 25H112 rocks
• 25H16 plain
• 25H211 spring, source of river or stream
• 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape
• 31A2511(+931) arm raised upward (+ indicating, pointing at)
• 31A2515 arm held downwards
• 31A25552 index finger forwards, pointing, indicating
• 31A2712(+0) crawling, going on all fours (+ variant)
• 31A51111(+0) reflection (in a mirror) (+ variant)
• 31B6211 looking upwards
• 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent
• 31D15 adult woman
• 41D211(+81) dress, gown (+ men's clothes)
• 41D211(+82) dress, gown (+ women's clothes)
• 41D233(+81) gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes)
• 49C3 scholar, philosopher
• 52AA51(+4) Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 56F241(+4) Narcissism (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61B2(D. E.)3 historical person (D. E.) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (D. E.)
• 86(AMOR SUI) proverbs, sayings, etc. (AMOR SUI)
• 95A(NARCISSUS)21 Narcissus, gazing in a fountain, falls in love with his own reflection; possibly the nymph Echo peeps at the scene
• 97B6 Narcissus changed into a narcissus: when Narcissus is pining away for the love of his image reflected from the water, he is changed into a narcissus (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 510)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem155
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem155
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667