Voncken der liefde Jesu, van het Godtbegerende zielenvier : bloemitjes der salige hoope, tot verheugelykheid der wandelaars langs den weg, na vreden ryk : een behelsinge van vyftig sinne-beelden, met hunne daar op spelende verssen, en heylige spreuken
A Dutch devotional emblem book of fifty engraved emblems with verses and scriptural mottoes, etched and written by Jan Luyken and printed by Pieter Arentsz in Amsterdam in 1687 for pious lay readers. The plates are small upright etchings in which a single robed soul-figure stands in open country before radiant suns, haloed bursts of light, skeletons, crowned worldly figures and distant crosses, offering compact figure-in-landscape vignettes, dense ray and cloud patterns, and silhouetted trees for spot illustration.


















































