Etching by Francis Barlow illustrating Canto 1 of Theophila (1652)

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Etching showing Edward Benlowes sketching Theophila, who stands opposite him dressed as royalty. An eagle flies above with a book in its talons.
Francis Barlow (engraver), etching for Canto 1 of Edward Benlowes’s Theophila (1652). British Museum Collection Database, 1850,0223.952.

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Etching for Canto 1 from Edward Benlowes’s Theophila (1652), showing the author sketching the character Theophila as an eagle flies above with a book in its talons. A second plate printed below the image contains eight lines of verse.

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    Edward Benlowes, Theophila (London: Henry Seile and Humphrey Moseley, 1652)
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    Francis Barlow
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    Edward Benlowes, Roger Norton, Henry Seile, Humphrey Moseley
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    London
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