The Play-Chair
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Play-Chair
Scripture Reference:
- Proverbs 9 (further images / scripture text)
Description: Two older children play with a little child in a play-chair, surrounded by toys, as two women look on. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and for the brief poem that accompanies it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are Proverbs 9:1-6, 16:16, 20:4-5; and Isaiah 55:2.
Motto:
The Child feels Rich with trifles.
He who loves trifles is like a child.
Poem:
Harmless! To him who watches attentively!
The small unworthy things
With which the playing little child amuses himself,
For Old Age, are judged as worthless:
O All Worldly goods, and toys,
How bad thou art, in the eye of Virtue!
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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