Lady Drury's Closet
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Lady Drury's Closet is a series of painted wooden panels of early 17th-century date, currently installed in the room over the porch of Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
Part of the emblematic panelling from Lady Drury's painted closet, originally at Hawstead Place near Bury St Edmunds
Emblem book
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An emblem book is a book collecting emblems with accompanying explanatory text, typically morals or poems. This category of books was popular in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Lady Drury's Closet
…become the home of the Fine and Decorative Arts collections of the Ipswich Museum. The panels contain a series of emblems of the kind associated with emblem books—images fashionable throughout Europe for private religious meditation in that age. The original sequence of the emblems is unclear, although the panels…
Wisdom - from George Wither's Book of Emblems (London 1635)
Woodcut from Guillaume de La Perrière, Le Théâtre des bons engins, 1545