Justice — from The Seven Virtues

This engraving depicts the allegorical figure of Justice as a woman with exposed breasts, seated on a stone plinth. She holds an upright sword in one hand and a balance scale in the other, symbolizing her role in judgment and the weighing of truth, while an architectural setting with figures in the distance completes the composition.

This work belongs to a long-standing tradition of personified virtues in Western iconography, rooted in classical philosophy and popularized in Renaissance emblem books. These allegories were used to frame moral and civic conduct within the broader, often didactic, intellectual culture of the period.