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

Emblem 157

A king squeezes water from a sponge; a crowd around a gibbet in the distance

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_mig1591_emblem147

Iconclass

• 11D Christ
• 21D water (one of the four elements)
• 25F31(+5262) groups of birds (+ flying animal(s))
• 25F75(SPONGE) coelenterata: sponge
• 26A clouds
• 31A2321 leaning forward
• 31A2512(+933) arm stretched forward (+ holding something)
• 31A2512(+939) arm stretched forward (+ other neutral connotations)
• 31A2621(+52) one leg in front of the other (+ leaning)
• 31A2723 climbing
• 31A5462 brush, sponge, etc. (toilet articles)
• 31D14 adult man
• 31D14(+79) adult man (+ more than eight persons)
• 31E2355(+6) violent death by hanging (+ execution (by judicial verdict))
• 41A343 ladder
• 41A351 terrace
• 41D233(+81) gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes)
• 44B113 king
• 44B127 ruler and his subjects
• 44B191 crown (symbol of sovereignty)
• 44B192 sceptre, staff (symbol of sovereignty)
• 44B197 mantle, gown, dress (symbol of sovereignty)
• 44C1 nationality, citizenship
• 44D40
• 44G342 on the scaffold or place of execution
• 46A17 working class, labourers
• 47C521(+0) pressing (industrial process) (+ variant)
• 48C1611 half-column, pilaster ~ architecture
• 55CC11(+4) Greed, Covetousness, Cupidity; 'Cupidità' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 86(QUOD NON CAPIT CHRISTUS, RAPIT FISCUS) proverbs, sayings, etc. (QUOD NON CAPIT CHRISTUS, RAPIT FISCUS)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem157
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem157
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667