Emblemes

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Hieroglyphikes of the life of man, Hugo, Herman, 1588-1629. Pia desideria. English, Holmes, P., -1702, Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698 · 1709 · London : Printed for William Freeman at the Bible in Fleet Street · 23 pictures

Emblemes is a 1709 London emblem book printed for William Freeman at the Bible in Fleet Street, reissuing Francis Quarles's verse emblems with engravings drawn from Herman Hugo's Pia desideria. The pictures are small framed engravings of winged cherubic figures, each set above a short motto and a Biblical citation, with a moral lesson in each scene. A designer could take their compact, symbolic compositions, with figures and emblematic objects arranged in simple landscapes, as a model for vignette-style spot illustrations.

Emblems

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