The Comb Maker
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Comb Maker
Scripture Reference:
- Psalms 40 (further images / scripture text)
Description: Three comb makers are at work in a small workshop while a woman watches. A number of ivory tusks lie on the floor and combs hang from the open shutters. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing this emblem and for creating the motto and poem that follow. Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is Psalm 40:11-13 though Luiken quotes Psalm 40:12-14.
Motto:
Comb out the tangle,
Before it gets worse.
Poem:
The hair of the head, entangled at night,
Is in the morning put to right:
Man is full of quick inventions;
But the true head in the heart
Sits often in tangles year after year,
And remains a hotbed of sins.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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