A young woman escapes down a rope of sheets, intending to elope with her lover. Aquatint by T. Lane after himself.

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 10.5 x 17.7 cm

A love scene not to be found in the works of Shakespeare, the elopement, love laughs at locksmiths the devil to pay, Proteus and the beautiful Maria swear eternal constancy. Actors no more than other men. Nature our greatest master. Matrimony in view. ; Drawn and engraved by Theodore Lane.

Wellcome Collection 28168i