Illustration design for "The Economy of Human Life"

Robert Dodsley|Frank Howard

1834 · Pen and ink, brush and wash · Drawings and Prints

A sour faced man sits next to a table. One of a group of twelve book illustration designs reproduced as an engraving in an 1834 edition of Robert Dodsley's "The Economy of Human Life," published in London John van Voorst. The image illustrates the text: "He sitteth in his cell repining, and the good that happeneth to another is to him an evil."

Artist

Robert Dodsley|Frank Howard

Date

1834

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and wash

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966