Image of An Artist, illustration from 'A Work for none but Angels by English School, (17th century)

An Artist, illustration from 'A Work for none but Angels and Men', by Sir John...

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Image title: An Artist, illustration from 'A Work for none but Angels and Men', by Sir John Davies, 1653 (litho)
Artist: English School, (17th century) / English
Location: British Library, London, UK
Medium: lithograph
Date: 1653 AD (C17th AD)

Image description: Sir John Davies (1569–1626) was an English poet, lawyer, politician and Attorney General for Ireland. A work for none but angels & men that is to be able to look into and to know ourselves, or a book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body ... : of the imagination or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions, motion of life, the local motion, intellectual power of the soul. "Fancie: Apelike I all thinges imitate: New project fashions I invent Dreamlike I them vary straite All shapes to head and harte present."
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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