Ian Harmensz Kruls. Minne-spiegel ter deughden
A 1639 Dutch emblem and moral-verse book printed in Amsterdam by C. Danckertsz van Zeevenhoven, written by Jan Hermansz Krul and drawing on Honoré d'Urfé's pastoral romance Astrée, aimed at readers who wanted virtue taught through romance. Its small engraved scenes show courtly lovers, a woman in a bedchamber, a nun at a doorway, and figures in cloaks on a street, with crisp hatching and clear gestures a designer could study for staging a dramatic moment in a few figures.
