Birth, Pieter Jalhea Furnius, after Jan van der Straet, 1570 print The three branch goddinnen Lachesis, Atropos and Clotho are in a room and spinning the thread of life. They determine the life course and the lifespan by measuring and cutting the thread of life. The one holds the Spintol, the other turns the thread and the third cuts it off. In the background, children play, on the left a woman is in bed and three women take care of a newborn child. Under the performance is a text in Latin, numbered on the left in the margin: 1. The print is part of a series of allegorical prints on human life
Birth, Pieter Jalhea Furnius, after Jan van der Straet, 1570 print The three branch goddinnen Lachesis, Atropos and Clotho are in a room and spinning the thread of life. They determine the life course and the lifespan by measuring and cutting the thread of life. The one holds the Spintol, the other turns the thread and the third cuts it off. In the background, children play, on the left a woman is in bed and three women take care of a newborn child. Under the performance is a text in Latin, numbered on the left in the margin: 1. The print is part of a series of allegorical prints on human life. Antwerp paper engraving Fates, Parcae (Moirae). the life of man. tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: scissors. spindle. distaff. lying-in room. implements for learning to walk, go-cart. the first years ~ the ages of man
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