The Doll Furnishings
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Doll Furnishings
Scripture Reference:
- Proverbs 1 (further images / scripture text)
Description: Three girls arrange doll dishes on a toy cabinet on the stoop, while a girl with a doll in her arms looks on. In the background a young couple with infant in arms and walking their dog comment on this scene. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and for the brief poem that accompanies it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are Proverbs 1:20-23 and Isaiah 3:18-24.
Motto:
What is the World, for the heart?
But Childish Doll Furnishings.
Poem:
The Doll Furnishings for the young Child,
Which give pleasure to the Little Girl,
Serve also as a Mirror for the Old Ones:
Do not support the trusted Security
Of the Noble mature mind
With Doll Furnishings.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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