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

Emblem 166

After a flood Colasmus searches upstream for his wife, because in life she always acted contrary

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Compare: Fae.49 Colasmus 82? 61B?

Iconclass

• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25H1124 boulder, stone
• 25H199 flood
• 25H213 river
• 31A2422 head turned to the right
• 31A247 looking over the shoulder
• 31A2512 arm stretched forward
• 31A2512(+931) arm stretched forward (+ indicating, pointing at)
• 31A2512(+934) arm stretched forward (+ reaching for somebody or something, seizing something, touching)
• 31A2515 arm held downwards
• 31A2545 gripping someone by the shoulder
• 31A26211(+51) one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ standing)
• 31A2624 standing on one leg, the other leg held sideways
• 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent
• 31D14(+74) adult man (+ four persons)
• 31E2212 drowned person
• 31E340
• 33A35 conversation, dialogue; conversation piece
• 41D211(+81) dress, gown (+ men's clothes)
• 41D233(+81) gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes)
• 42D320
• 42D360
• 42D42 widow
• 57AA67(+4) Unreasonableness (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 82(COLASMUS)
• 85(DROWNING OF COLASMUS' WIFE) fables (DROWNING OF COLASMUS' WIFE)
• 86(POST FATA: UXOR MOROSA, ETIAM DISCORS) proverbs, sayings, etc. (POST FATA: UXOR MOROSA, ETIAM DISCORS)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem166
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem166
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667