"Allegory"
Frontispiece to Aikin's 'A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester' (London, 1795).
Allegory; six female figures sitting in a ring, one holding a cornucopia, another a sickle, another with her back to the viewer in the right foreground holding the wand of Asclepius; cherubs with a garland above and a ship in the background to left.
Technique, Material: Steel engraving / Paper
Artist, Engraver: Charles Grignion
Date, Publisher: Europe, London, Publish'd June 2. 1795, by I. Stockdale Piccadilly'.
Size: sheet 27 x 20 cm.
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