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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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--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.9 x 13.5 cm

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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.

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

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Wellcome Collection 27049i

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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

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