/ But faithless still, and wav’ring as the wind! / O painted monster, form’d mankind to cheat, / With pleasing poison, and with soft deceit!
[n.d., c.1740.]
Rare etching. Sheet 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A fortune teller reads the palm of a young woman. The verse comes from Alexander Pope's paraphrasing of Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'.
[Ref: 57528] £160.00
Rare etching. Sheet 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A fortune teller reads the palm of a young woman. The verse comes from Alexander Pope's paraphrasing of Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'.
[Ref: 57528] £160.00