The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems
The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems is a 1700 London edition, printed for M. Gylliflower and L. Meredith, of Diego de Saavedra Fajardo's book of political emblems, rendered into English by Sir James Astry for readers interested in statecraft and rulers. Each plate is a small oval vignette set in a rococo cartouche, with a Latin or pseudo-Latin motto banner above a scene of trees, ships, fields, or a serpent, the scenes carrying the moral. A designer could borrow the cartouche framing and the compact emblem format, pairing a single symbolic image with a short motto.
