L’onorata vita del poltrone

An allegory relating to the fortunes of the Turks, a winged figure probably representing Time stands on a fallen Turk while sharpening a blade on a wheel inscribed with the continents that is being turned by a semi-dressed figure, at right the city of Vardino (northwest Romania near the Hungarian border) that was held by the Turks from 1660 to 1692.

1687 · Etching

Questa è la numerosa compagnia de ruvinati, nella quale s’entra senza memoriali, e raccomandationi

1687 · etching on paper, ink

De machteloosheid van de strevende mens tegenover het lot, de tijd en de dood

1687 · etching on paper

Buda conquered by the Austrians

1686 · Etching printed on two joined sheets

'Anno 1690' (the Year 1690), with numerous warring figures clambering on and hanging from the numbers, allusions to the Allegories of the Four Elements and the Four Continents

1685 · Etching

Proofs for four plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter I

1683 · Red crayon on white laid paper