'Old Wisdom blinking at the stars', 1782.Artist: W Rennie

'Old Wisdom blinking at the stars', 1782. Man of letters and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), as a wise owl, looks at busts of Milton and Pope. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
'Old Wisdom blinking at the stars', 1782. Man of letters and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), as a wise owl, looks at busts of Milton and Pope. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
'Old Wisdom blinking at the stars', 1782.Artist: W Rennie
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Hulton Archive
Date created:
January 01, 1782
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