Iohannis de Brunes I.C. Emblemata of Sinne-werck: voorghestelt, In Beelden, ghedichten, en breeder uijt-legginghen, tot uijt-druckinghe, en verbeteringhe van verscheijden feijlen onser eeuwe. Den tweeden druck met nieuwe plaeten en eenige Zedespreucken vermeerdert.
T' Amsterdam,: bij Ian Iacobsz Schipper op de Keysers gracht., 1661.
Physical Description
[8], 378 [i.e. 380] p.: [52] illus.; 223 mm. (Quarto.)
General Note
Page numbers 375, 376 are repeated in the pagination.
Contents
[Engr. t.p.] - [Verse, 'Tot God, en de Lezer'] - [Dedic.] - Aen de Leser - [Text] - J. de Brunes Zede-Spreucken.
Responsibility Note
The prints are not signed.
The work is dedicated by Joh. de Brune to Steven Tenys.
References
L.J. Bol, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne (1989).
Summary Note
The work had first been published in 1624.
There are fifty-two emblemata, each consisting of an image accompanied by a text in Dutch verse and prose. The images show everyday Dutch life and customs, and derive from contemporary Dutch genre paintings by Adriaen van de Venne.
Provenance
The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'S.A.H.', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
Purchased for RA Library in 1869 (See 'Report on the Library for the Year 1869', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 6, p. 26).
Binding Note
17th-century white vellum; unlettered.
Subject
Dutch - Social life and customs - Netherlands - History - 17th century
Emblems - Allegories - Genre - Netherlands - 17th century
Emblem books - Netherlands - 17th century
Pictorial works - Netherlands - 17th century