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

Emblem 192

Cupid sits on a seashore holding a bunch of flowers in one hand and a fish in the other

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_mig1591_emblem106

Iconclass

• 21B0 'Terra', 'Carro della terra' (Ripa)
• 21D0 'Acqua', 'Carro dell'acqua' (Ripa)
• 25F6(+1) fishes (+ animals used symbolically)
• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25G411 cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers
• 25H11 mountains
• 25H1124 boulder, stone
• 25I5 landscape with tower or castle
• 26A clouds
• 31A2352 sitting on an elevation
• 31A2422 head turned to the right
• 31AA2513(+933) arm stretched sidewards - AA - both arms or hands (+ holding something)
• 31A2621(+53) one leg in front of the other (+ sitting)
• 31B6212 looking downwards
• 31D12(+89) youth, young man, adolescent (+ nude human being)
• 54A7(+4):56F2(+4) Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosità dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)❧(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 86(POTENTIA AMORIS) proverbs, sayings, etc. (POTENTIA AMORIS)
• 92D17 specific aspects of Cupid

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem192
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem192
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667