![[Two scraps from the title page of 'Mirth versus Misery: The Pleasures of Human Life... The Miseries of Human Life' by Hilaris Benevolus.]](jpegs/50082.jpg)
[Two scraps from the title page of 'Mirth versus Misery: The Pleasures of Human Life... The Miseries of Human Life' by Hilaris Benevolus.]
Drawn by W. Satchwell. Engraved by W. Bond.
[London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, Paternoster Row, February 1807]
Two scraps, stipples with hand colour. Largest 75 x 75mm (3 x 3"). Laid on album paper with a third image.
Two faces, originally vignettes on the title page of a book by John Britton. The first is a laughing man with uneven teeth, the second a sour face attached to bat wings. The third is unrelated scrap showing Cupid firing an arrow at doves.
See BM 1977,U.957 for the complete sheet.
[Ref: 50082] £85.00
[London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, Paternoster Row, February 1807]
Two scraps, stipples with hand colour. Largest 75 x 75mm (3 x 3"). Laid on album paper with a third image.
Two faces, originally vignettes on the title page of a book by John Britton. The first is a laughing man with uneven teeth, the second a sour face attached to bat wings. The third is unrelated scrap showing Cupid firing an arrow at doves.
See BM 1977,U.957 for the complete sheet.
[Ref: 50082] £85.00