All Resolutions
What will ye do in the day of your visitation, to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
—Isaiah X. 3.
Artist
- Name:
- Bennett, Charles Henry, Rogers, William Harry
- Dates:
- 1828-1867; 1825-1873
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Ornaments & patterns
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Library of Congress, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Quarles' emblems
- Author(s):
- Quarles, Francis
- Publisher:
- London: James Nisbet and Co., 1861
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Book the Second. Emblem IV. A creature with a child’s body, an owl-like face, and the wings of a bat rises from a spherical mushroom. In the decoration is the motto Venturum exhorresco diem (I fear the light of the coming day).
For this series of illustrations, the main figurative artwork was carried out by Charles Henry Bennett and the ornamental part by William Harry Rogers.
Keywords: 19th century, black & white, border, emblem, monster, Victorian
