Emblem: Soldiers fighting with weapons

BRY, Johann Theodor de (Strasbourg, 1561 - Frankfurt, 1623), after Sebald Beham.

Emblem; Soldiers fighting with weapons.

Engraving, 1592

68x83 mm.

Lettered "TURPIS AVARITIA ET PRIVATI COMMODA LUCRI / PUBLICA SUBVERTUNT IURE TACENTE BONA". Numbered in lower right corner: "3".

Bibliography:

Hollstein Dutch 240-287

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Lettered on the scroll "NE PROHIBETE IRAS, DUM POENA ET MULETA REDUNDENT STERNANTUR LETHO, CADET HINC MIHI VICTIMA AD ARAS LIS PRODUCATUR DUM NULAM CONSOLIDATUR".

Illustration to "Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna" (Frankfurt, 1592).