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

Emblem 184

Two boys knocking nuts from a tree

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Compare: embmne_mig1591_192

Iconclass

• 25G11 groups of trees
• 25G21(NUTS) fruits: nuts
• 25G3(NUT-TREE)(+21) trees (NUT-TREE) (+ stem, trunk)
• 25G3(NUT-TREE)(+34) trees (NUT-TREE) (+ bearing fruit)
• 25H11 mountains
• 31A2511(+933) arm raised upward (+ holding something)
• 31A2511(+934) arm raised upward (+ reaching for somebody or something, seizing something, touching)
• 31AA2512(+933) arm stretched forward - AA - both arms or hands (+ holding something)
• 31A25513 hand made into a fist
• 31A2621(+51) one leg in front of the other (+ standing)
• 31A2721 jumping up
• 31A2743 hitting at something
• 31B6211 looking upwards
• 31D112(+72) child (+ two persons)
• 41D211(+83) dress, gown (+ children's clothes)
• 41D2339 barefoot
• 42B832 the naughty child
• 43C(+4)(STICK)
• 43C735(+0) child with plant (games and plays) (+ variant)
• 43C755 vandalism (mischief-making play)
• 47I4132 shaking down, tossing down the fruit
• 54BB31(+4) Damage, Disservice; 'Danno' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 58A3(+4) Fruitfulness, Productiveness, Fertility, Fecundity; 'Fecondità' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 86(IN FAECUNDITATEM, SIBI IPSI DAMNOSAM) proverbs, sayings, etc. (IN FAECUNDITATEM, SIBI IPSI DAMNOSAM)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem184
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem184
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667