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).