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Stichtelyke zinnebeelden gepast op deugden en ondeugden : in LVII tafereeelen vertoont

Houbraken, Arnold, 1660-1719, Brit, Gezine, fl. 1698-1723, Barents, Willem, fl. 1720-1733 · 1723 · T'Amsterdam : By Willem Barents ... · 61 pictures

A Dutch emblem book of 1723, published in Amsterdam by Willem Barents, with fifty-seven moral plates engraved after Arnold Houbraken and verses by Gezine Brit for pious lay readers. Each plate sets a small etched scene — a robed figure pointing skyward, travellers in wooded country, a beggar at a wall, ruins and church towers on the horizon — inside a ruled circle whose square surround is filled with wavy hatching, giving designers ready-made roundel frames, compact landscape vignettes and figure groups.

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