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 Wigmaker: Don’t please the world, But the eye that sees everything

Scripture Reference:

• Isaiah 3 (further images / scripture text)

Description: In front of his shop, the wigmaker combs the hair of a long gentleman’s wig while a dog sleeps at his feet. A short and a long wig are displayed on a raised shelf. The background consists of a prosperous city scene with two gentlemen walking towards the shop, two women selling fruit and vegetables, a coach drawn by two horses, large houses and a church. 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 Isaiah 3:24. Motto: Don’t please the world, / But the eye that sees everything. Poem: Hair, which nature gave to each one, /Is taken off, if it does not please him; /But if one would shave bad behavior this way, /Which life begot from youth, /And placed there pure virtue, /That would adorn man much more. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker).

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