[C] Emblem by Andrea Alciato entitled ‘What Christ does not receive, the exchequer seizes’ (1531)

This is from the first emblem book by Andrea Alciato. Emblem books, an early modern source type, were a highly visual kind of educational print item that contained symbolic woodcuts or engravings on every page. These images were accompanied by two texts, a short motto, and an explanatory paragraph in verse or prose. Image, motto, and explanation were meant to be carefully contemplated by the reader, in a meditative reading exercise.