Emblem for Cum severitate lenitas (Even in harshness there is mercy) represented by a storm cloud and a rainbow, from a book of emblems by Henry Peacham, ca. 1610.
Featured on PDR in the collection Rainbows in Art
Depictions spanning more than 800 years – in chronological order – of that most enigmatic of weather phenomena, the rainbow: from Noah's sign and the Book of Revelation, through to 18th-century optics, the epic landscapes of Romanticism, and modernist abstraction.
Also appearing in the collection…
Cum Severitate Lenitas (Even in Harshness There Is Mercy)
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Date
ca. 1610
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844 x 671
