[Music Iconography] Cats, Jacob. (1577-1660). 18th Century Dutch Etching. A fine etching from a 1726 edition of 'Alle de Wercken van den heere Jacob Cats....." showing a band of musicians performing in the street. Etching measures 140 x 107mm within a larger sheet with text.
A Dutch magistrate and high official, Jacob Cats was enormously popular as a poet and writer of emblem books, consisting of woodcuts or engravings with verses possessing a moral. His "Mirror of Old and New Times" (1632) contains many quotations that have become household sayings in the Netherlands, and he used it to express the ethical concerns of Dutch Calvinists, especially about love and marriage.
A Dutch magistrate and high official, Jacob Cats was enormously popular as a poet and writer of emblem books, consisting of woodcuts or engravings with verses possessing a moral. His "Mirror of Old and New Times" (1632) contains many quotations that have become household sayings in the Netherlands, and he used it to express the ethical concerns of Dutch Calvinists, especially about love and marriage.
[Music Iconography] Cats, Jacob. (1577-1660). 18th Century Dutch Etching. A fine etching from a 1726 edition of 'Alle de Wercken van den heere Jacob Cats....." showing a band of musicians performing in the street. Etching measures 140 x 107mm within a larger sheet with text.
A Dutch magistrate and high official, Jacob Cats was enormously popular as a poet and writer of emblem books, consisting of woodcuts or engravings with verses possessing a moral. His "Mirror of Old and New Times" (1632) contains many quotations that have become household sayings in the Netherlands, and he used it to express the ethical concerns of Dutch Calvinists, especially about love and marriage.
A Dutch magistrate and high official, Jacob Cats was enormously popular as a poet and writer of emblem books, consisting of woodcuts or engravings with verses possessing a moral. His "Mirror of Old and New Times" (1632) contains many quotations that have become household sayings in the Netherlands, and he used it to express the ethical concerns of Dutch Calvinists, especially about love and marriage.