De Onwaardige Wereld
An emblem book of Dutch didactic and mystical verse, etched and written by Jan Luyken and printed in Amsterdam by Kornelis vander Sys in 1728 for pious lay readers. The 52 small square etchings pair one or two figures — travellers, beggars, burden-carriers, soldiers — with open landscapes of ruined towers, church spires, distant carts and densely hatched cloud banks, offering compact framed vignettes, gesture-driven figure groups and reusable sky and foliage textures.
