Les Deux Aveugles. ou lequel est le plus sage?Garde a Vous, Voila la Comete. Ils sont, soyez en surs, aveugles tous les deux, Mais celui qu'on vous peint prive de ses deux yeaux a du moins pour souliens de sa triste existence Deux fideles amis: son chien, la Providence, L'autre pour s'eclairer perd jusqu'a son repos, Environne de Biens, il ne reve que maux Et voit dans le soleil, par qui tout se feconde, Des taches qui devront causer la fin du monde. Ah! puisqu' avec la science on voit tant d'accidents, Gardons notre ignorance et fuyons les savants.
A Paris chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq No 15 [n.d., c.1815].
Coloured etching. 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"), with large margins on 3 sides. Fox mark in edge of plate. Slightly time stained.
''The Two Blind Men, or which one is the wiser?''. Two in a landscape with windmills on a distant hill. One walks a small dog on a lead, feeling his way with a staff; the other stares up at the sun through the wrong end of a telescope. On the ground are a celestial globe, book, pair of compasses and a protractor. This is the Great Comet of 1819 called "Trailes" very bright and easily visible to the eye.
See Ref: 58456 for further images of Comets.
[Ref: 58455] £280.00
Coloured etching. 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"), with large margins on 3 sides. Fox mark in edge of plate. Slightly time stained.
''The Two Blind Men, or which one is the wiser?''. Two in a landscape with windmills on a distant hill. One walks a small dog on a lead, feeling his way with a staff; the other stares up at the sun through the wrong end of a telescope. On the ground are a celestial globe, book, pair of compasses and a protractor. This is the Great Comet of 1819 called "Trailes" very bright and easily visible to the eye.
See Ref: 58456 for further images of Comets.
[Ref: 58455] £280.00