A woman in ragged clothing stands inside a stone niche holding a bowl; representing poverty. Coloured aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.
- Date:
- [1843]
- Reference:
- 32227i
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Description
One of a set of allegorical figures seen in a dream as being painted on the outside of a wall of a walled garden, including hate, covetousness, sorrow, envy, old age and poverty
Publication/Creation
[London] : [Pickering], [1843]
Physical description
1 print : aquatint, printed in colours, with gouache (?) ; image 9.7 x 8.5 cm
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Lettering
Pouurete.
Lettering normalised: Pauvreté. Shaw's lettering: Old age and poverty. From the Romance of the rose in the British Museum Harl. MS 4425. Date about 1480.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 32227i
Reproduction note
After a manuscript of the Romance of the rose in the Harleian collection, British Library (MS 4425)
Notes
Forms a pair with a coloured engraving of "Vieillesse", representing old age
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