“Winter Woman” plate inserted in a copy of Theophila (1652), with annotations

Resource added
Photograph of the “Winter Woman” plate in Benlowes’s presentation copy of Theophila to Moseley.
“Winter Woman” plate inserted in a copy of Theophila (1652). Edward Benlowes has added a couplet below the image, and a later owner has added other annotations. The Morgan Library & Museum. PML 5846. Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Full description

“Winter Woman” plate heavily annotated with anagrams on the name “Sophia Lancaster” in English, Latin, and Greek, as well as a couplet by Benlowes.

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    30 MB
  • container title
    Edward Benlowes, Theophila (London: Henry Seile and Humphrey Moseley, 1652)
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    Edward Benlowes, Wenceslaus Hollar
  • credit
    Used by permission of The Morgan Library & Museum.
  • original publisher
    Edward Benlowes, Roger Norton, Henry Seile, Humphrey Moseley
  • original publisher place
    London
  • rights territory
    Worldwide