Lodona.In vain on Father Thames she calls for Aid...[etc., two stanzas from Pope either side of title.] Vide Pope's Windsor Forest.
Maria Cosway Pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
London, Published March 20, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Fine stipple engraving printed in brown ink, closed letters (final state). 430 x 505mm (17 x 19¾"). Some slight creasing and soiling.
A young woman in a wooded landscape leaning by a small waterfall by a river, weeping; her hair and dress begin to merge with the water. A scene from Alexander Pope's poem Windsor Forest (1713). Lodona, a nymph fond of hunting, is chased by Pan and implores Cynthia (an epithet of Diana the huntress goddess) to save her from her persecutor. No sooner had she spoken than she became ''a silver stream which ever keeps its virgin coolness''. She gives her name to The Lodden, an tributary of the Thames in Windsor Forest. After Maria Cosway (1759 - 1838).
[Ref: 19237] £380.00
London, Published March 20, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Fine stipple engraving printed in brown ink, closed letters (final state). 430 x 505mm (17 x 19¾"). Some slight creasing and soiling.
A young woman in a wooded landscape leaning by a small waterfall by a river, weeping; her hair and dress begin to merge with the water. A scene from Alexander Pope's poem Windsor Forest (1713). Lodona, a nymph fond of hunting, is chased by Pan and implores Cynthia (an epithet of Diana the huntress goddess) to save her from her persecutor. No sooner had she spoken than she became ''a silver stream which ever keeps its virgin coolness''. She gives her name to The Lodden, an tributary of the Thames in Windsor Forest. After Maria Cosway (1759 - 1838).
[Ref: 19237] £380.00