Philips van Mallery

Philips van Mallery or Philips de Mallery[1] (Baptised on 6 January 1598, Antwerp –after 1634, Antwerp) was a Flemish engraver and publisher who mainly worked on religious subjects, devotional prints, reproductive prints and emblem books.

[2] He made the emblems for an emblem book published by Joannes Cnobbaert in Antwerp in 1627 under the title Typus mundi in quo ejus calamitates et pericula nec non divini, humanique amoris antipathia, emblematice proponuntur (Image of the World, in which Calamities and Perils are emblematically presented along with the opposition in feeling between the Love of God and that of man).

[8] The calamities and perils referred to in the title of the publication are pointed out in all kinds of objects representing human failures.

The emblems are sometimes odd and very humorous such as the one showing Cupid turning the globe at a lathe, using the cross as its pedal (Erit ex hoc æquior Orbis).

[7] Philips van Mallery made the engravings for the publication Vita S. Rosaliae Virginis Panormitanae Pestis Patronæ iconibus expressa, published by Cornelis Galle the Elder in Antwerp in 1629.