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 Pump Maker: Who doesn’t want to sink, Must put hand to work

Scripture Reference:

• Ezekiel 27 (further images / scripture text)

Description: On a shipyard, the pump maker bores the center out of a wooden pump log. Two men work near him and several large sailing ships are in the background. 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 Ezekiel 27:25. Motto: Who doesn’t want to sink, / Must put hand to work. Poem: As the pump throws up again, / What the ship has taken in through the leak, /So must man, in the ship of life, / On the world’s sea, reaching for God, / The vanity, that leaks into him. / Continually throw up again. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker).

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