A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.

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27049i
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Description

A snail crawls up the wall on the right. On the left a large cobweb hangs in the window

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.9 x 13.5 cm

Lettering

When hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling's past,/ Feeling (as long as life remaines) doth last/ Mayde reach my lute, I am not well indeede:/ O pitty-mee, my bird hath made me bleede.

Creator/production credits

For two other prints in this series see record nos. 27055, 27059 in this catalogue. Possibly by George Glover, though the description by Hind is not precise enough to identify them securely with Glover's series

References note

A.M. Hind, M. Corbett and M. Norton, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, part III, Cambridge 1964, pp. 247-248

Reference

Wellcome Collection 27049i

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