Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Scrub-Brush
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Description: The biblical admonition to moral purity in James 4:8 is illustrated in this domestic scene, where one maid busily scrubs the paving stones of an interior courtyard, as a second brings more water. The poem nearby observes, though, that though a scrub-brush cleans the dirty footsteps, the feet of much that is evil tramp through the open court yard of the house of the soul and so leave dirty footprints. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649–1712), whose initials are at the lower right, was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and wrote the accompanying poem.
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