John Evans, astrologer and medical practitioner. Line engraving, 1794.

Date:
Feby. 1 1794
Reference:
651870i
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Description

Described by William Lilly as "of a middle stature, broad forehead, beetle-brow'd, thick shoulders, flat nosed, full lips, down-look'd, black curling stiff hair, splay-footed", dishonest, and "much addicted to debauchery, and then very abusive and quarrelsom, seldom without a black eye, or one mischief or another" (Oxford dictionary of national biography)

Publication/Creation

[London?] : J. Caulfield, Feby. 1 1794.

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 17.7 x 10.8 cm

Lettering

John Evans, the ill-favor'd astrologer, of Wales.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 651870i

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