Schouwtoneel des menschelyken leevens, of, Lessen der wysheid : uytgedrukt in 103. fraaye konstplaaten, welker zinspeelingen uyt Horatius verzaamellt zyn
A Dutch emblem book of 1755, published in The Hague by Joannes van Duren, pairing moral lessons drawn from Horace with 103 engraved plates credited to Jean Le Clerc after Otto van Veen's earlier Horatian designs, aimed at educated lay readers. The square copperplates stage small crowded scenes—a feast interrupted, a beheading, a soldier leading a man past a skeleton and mourners, a murder on a hillside road—in dense cross-hatching with dark interiors, open skies of ruled lines, and allegorical figures overhead, useful for figure groups, drapery, and emblematic stage sets.
