Vorstelijcke warande der dieren : waer in de zeden-rijcke philosophie, poëtisch, morael, en historiael, vermakelijck en treffelijck wort voorgestelt : mit exempelen uyt de oude historien, in prose : ende uytleggingen, in rijm verklaert
A Dutch verse-and-prose fable book, Joost van den Vondel's emblematic Warande der Dieren, reissued in Amsterdam in 1682 with 129 small etchings after Marcus Gheeraerts, aimed at readers seeking moral instruction from Aesopic animal tales. The plates are horizontal landscape vignettes in fine open etched line, each staging foxes, wolves, lions, dogs and birds among rocks, gnarled trees, classical ruins and distant villages, offering cut-out animal figures, foliage clumps and background scenery for collage or spot illustration.
