A half-undressed Dr. Johnson in a dunce's cap and with a rope around his neck walks from left to right, driven by Apollo, who holds the other end of the rope, and the Muses with uplifted scourges and birch rods. On his cap are the names of the poets J...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29th, 1783, by Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Muses (Greek deities), Poetry, History and criticism, and Whips
A half-undressed Dr. Johnson in a dunce's cap and with a rope around his neck walks from left to right, driven by Apollo, who holds the other end of the rope, and the Muses with uplifted scourges and birch rods. On his cap are the names of the poets J...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29th, 1783, by Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Muses (Greek deities), Poetry, History and criticism, and Whips
John Walton's translation of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae. Written on vellum in Anglicana formata script in England in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The manuscript lacks the first quire, including the Preface and Prologue as we...
Description:
In Middle English.
Subject (Name):
Walton, John, d. 1410.
Subject (Topic):
Poetry, Middle English poetry, and Philosophy and religion
Fragment, on vellum, of Piers Plowman, produced in Anglicana book script in Oxford or London at the beginning of the 15th century. The bifolium includes Passus II, line 200 to Passus III, line 44; and Passus IV, lines 123-174
