print;
book
- Museum number
- 1904,0206.163.5
- Title
- Object: Vita mortalium vigilia
- Description
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Emblem 5: interior setting; table with hourglass, burning candle and Bible; in front a sheild depicting a sheaf of wheat; surrounded by decorative border; illustration to Hadrianus Junius' Emblemata (Antwerp: 1565)
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1565
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 millimetres (image)
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Width: 55 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from an incomplete series of fifty-seven woodcuts, illustrating Junius' "Aenigmatum Libellus" and "Emblemata". For further comment see 1856,0712.205.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Hadriani Iunii Medici Aenigmatum Libellus
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Associated Title: Emblemata
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Acquisition notes
- Mitchell's ex-libris is pasted in the front cover. Inscribed on flyleaf with collector's name, in pen and brown ink: "J.W. Rimington/.?".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1904,0206.163.5