
Concordia holds the model of a walled city in her left hand and a millstone in her right. The millstone suggests how the grinding of many grains together creates a single flour, to feed and nourish the peaceable city and its its harmonious citizens.Engraving by Heinrich Aldegrever from a series of whole-length personifications of the virtues and vices with their respective attributes. (1549) British Museum 1853,0709.177
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