Het voorhof der ziele : behangen met leerzaeme prenten en zinnebeelden
Het voorhof der ziele is a Dutch emblem book of 1698, published in Rotterdam by Engelbertus Solmans with engravings after designs by Frans van Hoogstraten and Romeyn de Hooghe, aimed at moral instruction. Its small etched and engraved scenes show rural and domestic episodes with figures in period dress, including a satyr-like figure carrying a box beside a sleeping man, a crowded interior with a table and pillars, and a procession of men leading oxen toward a distant town. Designers could draw on the dense, hatched etching and the sparse horizon lines for compact narrative vignettes.
