Sculpture on the Tower of the Winds, Athens: the south west wind. Engraving by J. Basire the elder, 1762.

Lips (known as Livas) is seen as a young man holding a ship's sternpost, because the Livas wind blew straight into the harbour of Piraeus, preventing ships from sailing

The Tower of the Winds is also called the Horologion of Andronicus of Cyrrhus

1762

1 print : engraving ; platemark 23.8 x 35 cm

Libs, the south west wind, from the Temple of the Winds, at Athens. Jam.s Basire sculp.t. "Lips" is carved on the frieze in Greek letters

Wellcome Collection 2189092i