Old Wisdom blinking at the stars mb-artistname Terence All three of them are

All three of them are wearing the crinoline skirts that were incredibly fashionable at the time

a delivery to a pub

Fashionable people stroll in the gardens and tree-lined avenues of Ranelagh Gardens

Formerly the residence of Joseph White

Print marked '22' upper right'

Old Wisdom blinking at the stars mb-artistname Terence All three of them are'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).