An emblem of wisdom made of wood [graphic].[appoximately 1820]eng"An owl, with the head of Alderman Wood realistically drawn and a good portrait, stands directed to the right."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Identified by Andrew Edmunds as a copy of a print by Richard Dighton; see Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.97. For an impression of the print by Dighton, entitiled "Absolute wisdom, or, Queen's owl taken from a wood," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D13489).Variant state lacking publication line. For a state with the imprint "London, Oct. 23, 1820, Pub. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly," see no. 13899 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.