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- Published / Created:
- [1752]
- Call Number:
- File 763 752 Ae254
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Illustration to a poetic version of Aesop’s fable of a man with an older and a younger wife; the younger plucked out all his grey hairs, and the older, the dark ones with the inevitable result
- Alternative Title:
- Aesop's fables. Selections. English, Man and his 2 wives, Man and his two wives, and Man & his two wives
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Plate from: The Lady's curiosity: or, Weekly Apollo. London : Printed by C. Sympson, no. 17 (1752)., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text above image. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., Fourteen lines of verse engraved beneath title: A man whose years were in decline, / Had got two wives. One was a fine / Young airy thing who sung & danc'd; / The other grave, in age advanc'd, ..., Two additional lines of verse at bottom, beneath the heading "Application": Thus he that does to woman trust / Is shure to come off with the worst., "Fab. XXXII."--Above image., and Laid down on blue paper.
- Publisher:
- C. Sympson
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Fables, Spouses, and Windows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The man & his 2 wives [graphic].
