Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A woman surrounded by bubbles is sitting in font of a table with temporal riches, while smoke rises out of a cup; representing vanity. Engraving by W.I. Swanenburgh after A. Bloemaert.
A woman surrounded by bubbles is sitting in font of a table with temporal riches, while smoke rises out of a cup; representing vanity. Engraving by W.I. Swanenburgh after A. Bloemaert.
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A woman surrounded by bubbles is sitting in font of a table with temporal riches, while smoke rises out of a cup; representing vanity. Engraving by W.I. Swanenburgh after A. Bloemaert.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/66837 · 1611

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Lettering: Bullatas nugas, fumasque gaudia mundi, si nescis, haec te picta tabella docet. Hic fluit in laxa petulans bombyce puella, cuius inexhaustas area flagelat opes. Cui mundus placet, & gemmarum linea dives: et Myos archetypi, mentoreique scyphi. O curaas hominum! fumo, bullisque caducis, dum ludit, vanam se probat, immo, nihil. P.S. A. Bloemaert inventor. W. Swanenb. sculp. et exc. Anno 1611.

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