Quinti Horatii Flacci emblemata imaginibus in æs incis, notisq́; illustrata
An emblem book by the Antwerp painter Otto van Veen, printed in 1612 at his own expense and engraved with his brother Gijsbert, setting moral maxims drawn from Horace's odes and satires before learned Latin-reading collectors. The 105 plates are dense copperplate engravings of allegorical scenes — Death swinging a scythe, winged demons over a banker's counting table, philosophers at a draped study window — with fine cross-hatched skies, tiled floors in sharp perspective, and crowds of putti; useful for allegorical figures, period interiors, and closely worked line texture.
