Choosing Virtue, Allegory of Man's Life (series title), The personifications of Faith and Innocence protect a young man against the arrows aimed at him by Envy. In the background on the right, the same boy is introduced to the Christian Faith. Below the scene is a text in Latin, numbered in the left margin: 5. The print is part of a series of allegorical prints on human life., print, print maker: Pieter Jalhea Furnius, (mentioned on object), after design by: Jan van der Straet, (mentioned on object), publisher: Hieronymus Cock, (mentioned on object), Antwerp, 1570, paper, engraving, height

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