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

Emblem 203

A goat kicks over a bowl of milk; a maid raises her arms in despair

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Related emblem in another book: embmne_mig1591_emblem140

Iconclass

• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25G3 trees
• 25H11 mountains
• 25H114 low hill country
• 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape
• 26A clouds
• 31AA2511(+926) arm raised upward - AA - both arms or hands (+ despairing)
• 31D15 adult woman
• 41A17 farm (building)
• 41A54 fence, wall, paling
• 41A773(+9) container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase (+ broken, damaged)
• 41C6413 milk
• 41D211(+82) dress, gown (+ women's clothes)
• 47I2142(+939):31A247 ?❧looking over the shoulder
• 47I2142(+95):31A2744 she-goat, nanny-goat (+ animal(s) in motion; positions, expressions of animals)❧kicking something
• 47I22311 milkmaid
• 52B5111(+4):54DD3(+4) Good, Right (+ emblematical representation of concept)❧Start (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 52B5112(+4):54D3(+4) Bad, Evil, Wrong (+ emblematical representation of concept)❧Completion (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 54FF13(+4) Regression, Deterioration, Relapse (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 86(IN DESCISCENTES) proverbs, sayings, etc. (IN DESCISCENTES)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem203
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem203
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667