Old Wisdom blinking at the stars mb-code 42-23917923 'How to escape winning'

'How to escape winning'

looks up at a tall man in tail coat and enormously wide brimmed felt hat

God the Father presides in Heaven

demolished in 1858

This cartoon shows a youthful Prince being introduced as a dancing partner to Columbia

Old Wisdom blinking at the stars mb-code 42-23917923 'How to escape winning''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).