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

Emblem 225

Cephalus inadvertently kills Procris

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Compare: Ane.77 A matrimonio absit suspicio; dog's name: Laelaps or Lelaps

Iconclass

• 25G11 groups of trees
• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25H15 forest, wood
• 31AA2223(+89) breasts - AA - female human figure (+ nude human being)
• 31A2512(+933) arm stretched forward (+ holding something)
• 31A2513(+929) arm stretched sidewards (+ other connotations)
• 31AA2513 arm stretched sidewards - AA - both arms or hands
• 31A27112 running
• 31AA2731(+62) falling - AA - female human figure (+ backward)
• 31A27411 releasing something
• 31D14 adult man
• 31D15 adult woman
• 31E23461 violent death by arrow(s)
• 34B11(+952) dog (+ movements of animal(s))
• 41D211(+81) dress, gown (+ men's clothes)
• 41D211(+82) dress, gown (+ women's clothes)
• 41D233(+81) gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes)
• 41D92 woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude
• 45C15(ARROW) archer's weapons: arrow
• 45C15(BOW)(+63) archer's weapons: bow (+ handling of weapons)
• 45C23 quiver
• 57AA76(+4) Jealousy; 'Gelosia', 'Rammarico del ben'altrui' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61C2(LAELAPS) proper names of animals (LAELAPS)
• 86(ZELOTYPIA) proverbs, sayings, etc. (ZELOTYPIA)
• 92N1 (story of) Pluto (Hades), Dis Pater, Orcus
• 95A(CEPHALUS)214 Cephalus inadvertently kills Procris

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem225
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem225
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667