Book Title: Spiegel van het menselyk bedrijf : in kleuren vertoond met honderd verbeeldingen, van ambachten, konsten, hanteeringen en bedryven, met verzen / Jan en Kasper Luiken.

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Dyer: Universality Gives unity

Description: The dyer lowers the cloth into a dye vat using a reel and crank. In the background, several workers rinse the dyed cloth in the canal. The Dutch artist and poet, Jan Luiken (1649-1712), was responsible for drawing this emblem, Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is Isaiah 63:2. Motto: Universality / Gives unity. Poem: Red blood from Jesus, beautiful color / Infuses our souls through and through, /So that we will please the eternal eye: /As the dyer’s liquid /Penetrates the pale woolen fabric, /To appear, like reborn. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker) Page 39 Image Title The Shoemaker: Don’t look at the means, But why it happens. Keywords workshop shoemaker cobbler man shoe woman infant child Jan Luiken Casper Luiken Josephine V. Brown William G. Stryker Josephine Brown William Stryker Image Description The shoemaker stands in front of a client who sits on a stool and tries on a shoe. In the background are three workers; a woman carrying a small child enters the workshop. 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 26:11-12. Motto: Don’t look at the means, / But why it happens. Poem: The foot encloses itself in the shoe, / Though with the shoe it has nothing to do; /Except, to walk with it on the road: /The soul does live in flesh and blood, /But they serve it, as the shoe the foot, /To go with it to the land of peace. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker) Page 41 Image Title The Comb Maker: Comb out the tangle, Before it’s worse. The dyer lowers the cloth into a dye vat using a reel and crank. In the background, several workers rinse the dyed cloth in the canal. The Dutch artist and poet, Jan Luiken (1649-1712), was responsible for drawing this emblem, Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is Isaiah 63:2. Motto: Universality / Gives unity. Poem: Red blood from Jesus, beautiful color / Infuses our souls through and through, /So that we will please the eternal eye: /As the dyer’s liquid /Penetrates the pale woolen fabric, /To appear, like reborn. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker).

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