Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Old Man in the Dew-House: Emblem IX
An old man sits inside a small round pavilion beneath a fruit-bearing tree. Columns, windows and a pointed roof turn the enclosure into a carefully built garden chamber. Emblem IX uses the dew-filled house, tree and fruit to picture the renewal of age.
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Matthaeus Merian. "The Old Man in the Dew-House: Emblem IX" [editorial title]. In Atalanta Fugiens, Michael Maier. Inspected engraved title: Oppenheim, Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, M DC XVIII (1618). Latin and German historical printing with musical fugues and engraved emblems, final errata. Printing date checked on an enlarged crop of the existing title derivative. No modern English translation or new commentary., 1618, Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry. Source scan leaf 53. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/maier-old-man-dew-house
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Descriptive title supplied for browsing. The complete original page retains its Latin motto, epigram, margins and paper tone. The scene belongs to Maier’s historical alchemical allegory.
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Matthaeus Merian. The Old Man in the Dew-House: Emblem IX. Atalanta Fugiens. Scan leaf 53. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/maier-old-man-dew-house