Het voorhof der ziele : behangen met leerzaeme prenten en zinnebeelden
Het voorhof der ziele is a 1668 Dutch emblem book printed in Rotterdam by the bookseller Frans van Hoogstraten, with etched plates by Romeyn de Hooghe and Hendrik van Puer, made for a general moralizing readership. Its etchings show everyday scenes of crowds, rural labour, and figures in landscapes, each with a small moral lesson, and a designer might take their loose hatched line work and dense crowd compositions as models for lively narrative vignettes.
