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Un homme par terre & un Crocodile qui le vient surprendre
Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 48/9 -
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, more detailed) and for some mottoes (the Latin one exactly; the French and Dutch
ones not exactly) in: Inversus crocodilus amor [109] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Inversus crocodilus amor [109] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
A man attacked by a crocodile- river
[25H213]
- crocodiles (+ animal psychology)
[25F43(+47):31B6214]
- crocodiles (+ animal(s) attacking)
[25F43(+512)]
- dale, valley
[25H12]
- animal killing man
[34F13]
- Reciprocal Action (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54EE11(+4):56F2(+4)]
- Mirth, Hilarity (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56B11(+4)]
- Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56BB1(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(INVERSUS CROCODILUS AMOR)]