A woman in ragged clothing stands inside a stone niche holding a bowl; representing poverty. Coloured aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.

Date:
[1843]
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32227i
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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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