Sixteenth century

An image of an oyster biting the head of a mouse. (Mainly for @KarlSteel)

From: Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered…
Printed: 1586
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 25438)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 9 March 2016: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered… (1586), the work of Geffrey Whitney and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 25438). Copied into this book the ninth day of March, 2016. Finis.

Cite the original
Whitney, Geffrey.
A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered….
1586.
Early English Books Online (STC 25438).

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