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

Emblem 245

Two horsemen chasing a horse with whips raised

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Compare: Par.293 (Solus promeritus)

Iconclass

• 23A11 other allegories of Time, e.g. 'Tempo' (Ripa)
• 23R10 'Giorno naturale', 'Carro del giorno naturale' (Ripa)
• 25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
• 25H16 plain
• 31A2352 sitting on an elevation
• 31A247 looking over the shoulder
• 31A2511(+933) arm raised upward (+ holding something)
• 31A2512(+933) arm stretched forward (+ holding something)
• 31D14(+72) adult man (+ two persons)
• 31D14(+89) adult man (+ nude human being)
• 31D920 'Velocità della vita humana', 'Vita breve' (Ripa)
• 41D91 man (showing himself) undressed, quasi-nude
• 43C2121(+1) horse-racing (+ sportsman, player, etc.)
• 45D1(+0) (military) flags and standards (+ variant)
• 46A122(...)3 armorial bearing, heraldry (with NAME of family) - device, motto
• 46C131(+81) riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman (+ sitting astride without saddlery)
• 46C13183:22C4(BLACK) galloping horse❧colours, pigments, and paints: black
• 46C13183:22C4(WHITE) galloping horse❧colours, pigments, and paints: white
• 46C1463 whip
• 48A98331 fleur-de-lis ~ ornament
• 58B21(+4) Human Life; 'Vita humana', 'Vita inquieta', 'Vita e l'animo' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61B2(JONSON, James)3 historical person (JONSON, James) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (JONSON, James)
• 86(SIC AETAS FUGIT) proverbs, sayings, etc. (SIC AETAS FUGIT)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem245
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem245
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667