Engraving 2 in large paper copies of The Purple Island

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Engraving showing a pansy and sunflower reaching for the sun with verses signed “P. F.” Printed after the internal title page to Piscatorie Eclogs.
Second engraved plate that Edward Benlowes added to large paper copies of Phineas Fletcher’s The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633), STC 11082.5. Printed on the recto of the leaf after the divisional title page to the Piscatorie Eclogues. Houghton Library, HEW 6.10.6.

Full description

Engraving showing a pansy and sunflower reaching for the sun with verses signed “P. F.” Based on the title page to Heliotropium by Jeremias Drexel.

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    3 MB
  • container title
    Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man: Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies (Cambridge: Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633)
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    Edward Benlowes, Phineas Fletcher
  • credit
    Photograph by Whitney Trettien.
  • original publisher
    University of Cambridge Press
  • original publisher place
    Cambridge
  • rights
    CC0
  • rights holder
    Whitney Trettien
  • rights territory
    Worldwide