# Several insects [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOEFNAGEL, Jacob]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary This engraving is after a drawing by Joris Hoefnagel. It is in the book 'Archetypa studiaque patris \(Frankfurt am Main, 1592\). At top, the Latin motto taken from Psalm 9:2 reads: I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. In seventeenth-century culture sometimes even the product of natural science and technology were endowed with symbolism. Research on bees in particular was accompanied by symbolism and morality. ## Related artworks - [A Young Man Caresses an Old Woman]() - [Allegory of the Humanist Virtue]() - [Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()