Allegorien und Embleme, Vol II (page 1/3)

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Guild of Carriage-Makers

This incredibly busy design is for the guild of carriage-makers (I think) in 1612. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons, a bunch of baroque scroll-work, signs of a key and a pair of dividers (maybe?) and, in the centre of the busy frame, a seated lady holding a flag or banner in one hand [...] [more...] [$]

Initial Letter T With Cherubs and Dancing Couple

This vignetted initial shows a dance, with couples wearing elaborate clothing; the front-most couple is shown in detail and the others as shadowy sketches. A putto or cherub, a naked boy in the sky, plays a violin, whild another naked boy, [...] [more...] [$]

Menu Card 1: Court Jester

Menukarte (Hofnarr) [more...] [$]

Cherubs in the rain

Originally a vignetted initial; here we have a design with three rectangles: on the left a rain-filled area dominated by an umbrella, and a lower leg with its bare foot and a bottom (not naked) protruding; the midele rectangle blank except for a shadow of the umbrella; the right-hand rectangle featuring a naked and anatomically detailed small child [...] [more...] [$]

Historiated Initial Letter U With Clock and Cherub

This inhabited, or historiated, initial, features a clock with a bell on the top of it which a winged cherub is about to hit with a small hammer; there’s also a butterfly and a [...] [more...] [$]