The man & his 2 wives [graphic].[1752]engIllustration 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 resultTitle 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.Laid down on blue paper.