Jun 11, 2018
Early modern "emblems" like this one tended to have three elements: image, motto, and text explaining the connection between the two. Here the text has been written by the poet George Wither who a later poet called “a man of real genius, but [who] seems to have been partially insane”. More from his Emblemes (1635) here: https://buff.ly/2Ghr2QB . 🔄 . #publicdomainreview #emblem #death #mortality #mementomori #snake #skull #orobus #whatgoesaroundcomesaround #ashestoashesdusttodust #toddlerandskully