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Uncolored engraving with a printed border in red ink. The engraving depicts the Garden of Eden, with Adam and Eve on either side of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, with the animals--including a pair of unicorns, and a sea monster--depicted throughout the scene, with the Serpent coiled around the Tree, and the two rivers of the garden visible. Ribbons swirl from Adam and Eve's hands and coil about the tree and serpent. On these ribbons are printed the following words:
"Created Good and Faire by Breache of Lawe a Snare."
"Duste for to eate must be my meate" (around the Serpent)
"Restor'd we be by Promis [sic] made"
"To Pleasures of Eternity"
"Desire to Knowe hath Wrought our Woe"
"By Tasting this Th'exile of Blisse"
On the verso, a table of contents in English for the volume. This is visible because the paper has detached from the mounting.


whales
1602-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Barker, Robert
ink; laid paper; red ink; mounting
13 in x 8 1/2 in; 16 in x 11 1/2 in
Britain: London