"Architectural setting with, on the left History and a Spirit writing the history of England; in the foreground, winged Spirits taking books away from Time, who is trying to devour them; on the right, London, personified by a seated, crowned woman leaning on a lion, sits at the bottom of a pedestal; in the upper part, Fame blowing a trumpet and carrying the oval portrait of Isaac de Larrey."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece to the third or fourth volume of Larrey's 'Histoire d'Angleterre', 4 vols (Rotterdam, 1697-1713). See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of image on left edge.
