Reason, Rectitude & Justice appearing to Christina de Pisan and promising to assist her in writing La cité des dames from an illumination in the library of the King of France. [graphic][1786]engTitle from text below image.Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.Plate from: Walpole, H. Postscript to the royal and noble authors. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1786.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Engraved after an illumination that was in the library of the King of France; a wash drawing after this illumination was also in Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill.Mounted on page 69 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 11.7 x 13.1 cm.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text below image.For further information, consult library staff.