Wellcome Collection
Science: putti undertaking various experiments in an open temple or rotunda, presided over by Scientia. Engraving, n.d., c.1750.
Unknown artist
Lettering: A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Pope. ; Here bright eloquence does always smile, In such a choice yet unaffected style, As doth both knowledge & delight impart, The force of reason with ye flow'rs of art. Buckingham.
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