1767 – Picture – astrologer

Physical description:

Reproduction of a hand-coloured woodcut showing an astrologer or astronomer, in a desert landscape, holding two devices presumably for measuring positions of the stars - a forked device and a kind of globe on a stick. Books lie at his feet.

Museum classification:

Divination

Size:

130 x 105

Information:

The style suggests the original picture may have been from an 18th century chapbook.
This version has been cut from a book (there is a picture of a talisman on the back).

Resource:

Picture

Materials:

Paper

Copyright ownership:

Treetrunk Ltd

The style suggests the original picture may have been from an 18th century chapbook.
This version has been cut from a book (there is a picture of a talisman on the back).