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 Butcher: Unthinking Pays no heed

Scripture Reference:

• Proverbs 7 (further images / scripture text)

Description: In the butcher shop, one butcher is in the process of slaughtering a cow while a second sharpens his knife; a cow waits outside and slaughtered pigs hang from a pole just outside the shop. 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 Proverbs 7:22. Motto: Unthinking / Pays no heed. Poem: The beast steps in his mate’s blood, / And knows neither to fear nor to avoid: / Like the unthinking heart,/Although its nearest dies at its side, /And it sees an evil fruit, / It still does not take flight. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker).

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