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![[picture: front cover, Allegories and Emblems]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/tn/000-front-cover-q75-401x500.jpg "[picture: front cover, Allegories and Emblems]")
Images from Allegorien und Embleme (Alegories and Emblems) (Volume II, [Heraldic] Emblems) by Martin Gerlach Senior(1846 – 1918).
I do not have a copy of this book but bought a set of page images; unfortunately the pages were not held very flat and the resolution is lower than I’d like, but copies of this book are incredibly expensive as far as I can tell (and volume I even more so).
Title: Allegorien und Embleme, Vol II
Published by: Martin Gerlach
City: Vienna
Date: 1882
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Ornate baroque-stye border with herubs and gryphons]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/001-img017-full-page-cherub-border-q75-151x200.jpg "[picture: Ornate baroque-stye border with herubs and gryphons]")
Ornate baroque-stye border with herubs and gryphons
This border is from the 1612 sign for the Nurenberg Guild of Carriage-Makers made by Adolf Mießner. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Steampunk flying cog]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/028-img045a-steampunk-vintage-flying-cog-q75-177x200.jpg "[picture: Steampunk flying cog]")
A cog with feathered wings, a steam-whistle, perhaps a regulator knob, and another unidentifiable part, flies through the clouds. [$]
![[picture: Cherubs in the rain]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/163-img189a-cherubs-in-rain-q75-332x200.jpg "[picture: Cherubs in the rain]")
Originally a vignetted initial; here we have a design with three rectangles: on the left a rain-filled area dominated by an umbrella, and a lower leg with its bare foot and a bottom (not naked) protruding; the midele rectangle blank except for a shadow of the umbrella; the right-hand rectangle featuring a naked and anatomically detailed small child [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Initial Letter S with Frowning Tailor]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/163-img189b-frowning-wizard-taylor-q75-80x200.jpg "[picture: Initial Letter S with Frowning Tailor]")
Initial Letter S with Frowning Tailor
An elderly man with a long goatee and a tall hat is threading a needle; he sits on top of an oversized thimble, next to a [more...] [$]
![[picture: Guild of Carriage-Makers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/001-img017-full-page-cherub-emblem-q75-151x200.jpg "[picture: Guild of Carriage-Makers]")
This incredibly busy design is for the guild of carriage-makers (I think) in 1612. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons, a bunch of baroque scroll-work, signs of a key and a pair of dividers (maybe?) and, in the centre of the busy frame, a seated lady holding a flag or banner in one hand [...] [more...] [$]
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