Book Title: Des menschen begin, midden en einde : vertoonende het kinderlyk bedryf en aanwasch in eenenvyftig konstige figuuren, met goddelyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen / door Joannes Luiken ; met het leven van den autheur

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Doll

Scripture Reference:

• 1 Samuel 15 (further images / scripture text)

Description: On the stoop, a young girl sits in a child’s chair with a beautifully dressed doll on her lap, as two other girls and two women are nearby with additional doll clothes. In the background is a Protestant church with weather vanes. 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 1 Sam 15:22-23; Isa 2:17-21; and Eph 5:5.

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Motto:
Giving Doll-like service to wood and stone
Is among the Old ones all too common.

Poem:
The little Doll given to the Child,
Is under that innocent hand,
As is true life with the Old ones;
One laughs at the childish understanding:
But, alas! how many of those who are Old
Are seen playing with Dolls!

(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)

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