An allegorical female figure with scales on her breast and a palm branch in her hand is leaning on a book against a pedestal with the title of the book. With her right foot she tramples on a snake. To her left stands Moses with the stone tablets. In front of her is a kneeling woman. On the right there are worshiping figures of various origins. Behind them fighting men. In the background the temple of Solomon, the fall of man and Noah's ark. Above the woman a dove, symbolising the Holy Spirit and the tetragramme.
A print with subjects from religion, from Christianity based on the bible and protestant ideas.
Place of manufacture: Amsterdam
Physical characteristics: etching, hand coloured and gilded
Romeyn de Ho(o)g(h)e (Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands, September 10, 1645 - Haarlem, June 15, 1708) was a Northern Dutch etcher, drawer of 3,500 prints, caricaturist (under the pseudonym Marlois), painter, iconographer, goldsmith, enameller, book illustrator, map publisher, inventor of a way to print cotton, lawyer, and writer of historical-political works.
The De Hooghe family came from Ghent; Romeyn's father married in Diemen. In 1673, Romeyn de Hooghe married Maria Lansman, the daughter of a minister from Edam.
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