A woman with a globe containing a face; representing the faculty of the will. Engraving, 16--.

Date:
[not later than 1662]
Reference:
26814i
Part of:
The foure faculties of the minde
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Description

Though these prints are described by Griffiths (loc. cit.) as half-length women, two prints in the set are full-length figures of seated men and two are three-quarter length figures of seated women

Publication/Creation

[London] : [Sould by Tho: Ienner at the Exc[h]ange dore], [not later than 1662]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.4 x 12.6 cm.

Lettering

Will. Free to all ill, till freed to none but ill,/ Now this I will, anon the same I nill,/ Appetite ere while, ere while reason may,/ Nere good, but when Gods spirit bears ye sway.

References note

Antony Griffiths, The print in Stuart Britain 1603-1689, London 1998, p. 308, no. 17 ('The foure faculties of the minde', Publisher: Thomas Jenner (1662 advertisement))

Reference

Wellcome Collection 26814i

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