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A man caught between the female personifications of vice and virtue. Etching by Louis Desplaces after Paolo Caliari, il Veronese.

Date

[between 1729 and 1742]

Reference

27737i

Part of

Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France.

A man harrassed by personifications of greed, guilt, credulity, jealousy, sadness and pride. Engraving by P. Galle, ca 1563.

Date

[1563?]

Reference

26276i

A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.

Reference

15851i

Men worship an ass bearing a religious image; alluding to both Aesop's fable of the ass and idol worship in Arianism and contemporary Catholicism. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Date

1622

Reference

26660i

Part of

XL Emblemata miscella nova

The beauties of history; or, pictures of virtue and vice, drawn from real life; designed for the instruction and entertainment of youth. By L.M. Stretch, M.A.

Date

MDCCLXX [1770]

A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of sin. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870, after J. Bakewell.

Date

1870

Reference

26799i

A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.

Date

1690

Reference

17931i

A personification of Obedience with her attributes is attacked from the sides by eight vices; above her appears Christ on the cross; (top left) the sacrifice of Isaac; (right) Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; (below) three examples of disobedience, including the expulsion from Paradise. Engraving after H. Wierix .

Reference

29538i

A drunken scene in a dancing hall with a sly customer eyeing a girl. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Date

1848

Reference

26037i

Part of

The drunkard's children

Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after S. Ward.

Date

1627

Reference

25926i