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Title Page Detail: Francis Quarles Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

A supposed portrait of the author, Francis Quarles, taken from the title page. He is shown with a goatee beard in appropriate seventeenth-century style, and holding a book.Short biography of Francis Q [...]

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The Invocation. Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

The illustration for “The Invocation” at the start of the first book shows a person lying on the ground resting against a tree, barefoot, with a lute on the ground nearby, and an heraldic shield hung [...]

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Emblem 1. Serpent. Eve. Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

This woodcut shows a naked woman (the Biblical Eve) near an apple tree; a snake or serpent coils round the trunk of the tree. In the background ar a palm tree, a camel, and, in the far distance, a ma [...]

Keywords: emblems, people, nudity, women, snakes, trees, temptation, biblical scenes, greyscale

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Emblem 2. Sin brings forth death. Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

In the background, a face of a storm-god blows a wind and makes a sailing ship race atop a giant wave; lightning and rain are in the background, and a building burns. In the foreground stands a naked [...]

Keywords: emblems, death, storms, nudity, bare feet, people, biblical scenes, greyscale

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