Accession number
PML 145850.224
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 16--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Possibly an illustration removed from an unidentified publication.
Inserted as item 225 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed and torn along right margin.
Possibly an illustration removed from an unidentified publication.
Inserted as item 225 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed and torn along right margin.
Description
1 print : woodcut ; sheet: 128 x 80 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Emblematic design showing a primrose plant with a wheel-shaped device with the spokes or cross bars studded with eyes, the central design flanked by scrolls with Latin text; above, a hand emerges from a cloud and grips a tablet with a quote from Ovid, "Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus, Et certam praesens vix habet hora fidem."
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