illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1882,1111.1-13
- Description
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'The Passions Personify'd, in Familiar Fables' (London: J. Whiston & M. Lawrence) n.d. [1773]; containing 12 etchings by J. Miller, serving as illustrations to the fables: 1. Love, jealousy and suspicion, 2. Ambition and avarice, 3. Honour, vanity, and content, 4. Necessity, genious, and invention, 5. Affection, flattery, and folly, 6. Luxury and industry, 7. Credulity, craft, and innocence, 8. Pride and affability, 9. Prudence, dissipation, and justice, 10. Fortitude, patience, and anger, 11. Saturn and the four season, 12. Poetry, painting, and candour; each image within a rectangular frame with title on tablet above, facing the first page of the correspondent fable. Together with frontispiece showing a figure in the clouds shinning a light on Virtue, the light reflecting on Virtue's breastplate and illuminating the crowd to the left, a woman at the front kneels with her hands crossed over her chest; preface, table of contents, occasional initial letter and tailpiece. Bound in brown leather with gold tooling on spine and blind tooling on covers, marbled endpapers.
Etching with some engraving
- Production date
- 1773
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 145 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Passions Personify'd, in Familiar Fables
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,1111.1-13