Allegory on the human nature; Naturae Sequitur Semina Quisque Suae. Beneficents, beneficiality personification, is on a chair and is stabbed from behind by evil in the form of a naked man. A knee of the man leans on a skull and a snake, which bites in his own tail as a symbol of eternity, hangs around his right leg. On the right is a coffin with the inscription: Mors Oblivio. With her left hand, Beneficentia gives the sun on the naked man. The moon gives them to the woman for her. Between them is a tied lion, licking a dog. A mouse gnaws at his rope. A few obelisks in the background. The show
Allegory on the human nature; Naturae Sequitur Semina Quisque Suae. Beneficents, beneficiality personification, is on a chair and is stabbed from behind by evil in the form of a naked man. A knee of the man leans on a skull and a snake, which bites in his own tail as a symbol of eternity, hangs around his right leg. On the right is a coffin with the inscription: Mors Oblivio. With her left hand, Beneficentia gives the sun on the naked man. The moon gives them to the woman for her. Between them is a tied lion, licking a dog. A mouse gnaws at his rope. A few obelisks in the background. The show has an ornamental picture frame. On the left, the personification of fertility is a child, which is awakened by the breath of Apollo as a symbol of good to life. On the right a child gets birth that his breath of evil receives. Above-top a woman gives a child's breast. At the top right a woman feeds a child with a spoon. Under the show a eight-line, Latin text and a cartouche with a five-line, Latin text.
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