Marriage scale, Johann Theodor de Bry, after Pieter de Jode, 1596 print The 'wedding balance'. A gentleman and a lady on a scale that clearly strikes to the woman's side. The man's love may be great, his stock market (who lies in front of him) is not and he is found to be too light by the girl's parents who are watching next to it. On the right an Amor with arrow and arrow with an open money box. Emblem no. 24 in Emblemata Saecularia, 1596 and no. 45 in the second edition of 1611. paper engraving Existence and Modes of Existence (+ emblematical representation of concept)

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