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

Emblem 162

When led away to his execution, a thief punishes his mother for the leniency that has made him a thief, by biting off her nose when she embraces him one last time

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Compare: Fae.119

Iconclass

• 25I141 street
• 31A244 head bent forward; bowing
• 31A247 looking over the shoulder
• 31AA2511 arm raised upward - AA - both arms or hands
• 31A2512(+933) arm stretched forward (+ holding something)
• 31A2513(+933) arm stretched sidewards (+ holding something)
• 31A2516 arm or hand held in front of the body
• 31A2516(+933) arm or hand held in front of the body (+ holding something)
• 31A26211(+51) one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ standing)
• 31A2711 walking
• 31A534 beard
• 31B623(+9223) morphology of facial expression ~ mouth (+ attacking somebody)
• 31D14 adult man
• 31D14(+78) adult man (+ eight persons)
• 31D17 old woman
• 33A14(+0) embracing each other, kissing (+ variant)
• 33B12 accusing
• 41A31 façade (of house or building)
• 41D211(+81) dress, gown (+ men's clothes)
• 41D211(+82) dress, gown (+ women's clothes)
• 41D221(+81) head-gear (+ men's clothes)
• 41D221(+82) head-gear (+ women's clothes)
• 41D233(+81) gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes)
• 41D233(+82) gear for legs and feet (+ women's clothes)
• 42B0
• 42B7421 mother and son(s) (family group)
• 42B80
• 44G321(GIBBET) instruments of torture, execution or punishment (GIBBET)
• 44G3415 (person under sentence of death) on the way to the scaffold or place of execution
• 44G54 thief
• 45C11(SPEAR) casting weapons: spear
• 45C14(BATTLE-AXE) helved weapons, polearms (for striking, hacking, thrusting) (BATTLE-AXE)
• 45C22 armour
• 45C221 helmet
• 45D313(+21) private soldier (+ infantry)
• 45D313(+22) private soldier (+ cavalry, horsemen)
• 46C131 riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman
• 46C13181 walking (horse in motion)
• 47D8(ROPE) tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: rope
• 57A73(+4) Indulgence, Clemency; 'Clemenza', 'Clemenza & Moderatione', 'Indulgenza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 85(THIEF AND HIS MOTHER) fables (THIEF AND HIS MOTHER)
• 86(INDULGENTIA PARENTUM, FILIORUM PERNICIES) proverbs, sayings, etc. (INDULGENTIA PARENTUM, FILIORUM PERNICIES)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem162
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem162
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667