Wellcome Collection
A humorous image of a 'monkey' wearing spectacles reading the Times with the Examiner under his arm, sitting besides a globe, a few lines from King Lear are printed below. Etching, 1827.
1827
Lettering: "Get thee glass eyes; And like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not." - King Lear.
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