The Hopscotch Court
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Hopscotch Court
Scripture Reference:
- Psalms 1 (further images / scripture text)
Description: A youth plays hopscotch on a court drawn on the street, as two boys watch intently and a nearby couple comments on this scene. In the background a man walks with a cane. A crack is apparent in the copper plate, which runs from the head of the boy on the far left to the outside of the left margin line. 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 Ps. 1; Proverbs 2:10-15, 12:15, and 16:17.
Motto:
He is crippled, who doesn’t live well,
Though he has both feet.
Poem:
The little Child takes pains,
In playing hopscotch;
That pastime was not necessary:
He who does nothing but Earthly Things,
Walks only on One foot,
Like an ignorant Child, before God.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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