A gentleman with an open hand is being shown the picture of a grand neoclassical villa by a fortune teller. Etching, 1753.
Wellcome Collection

A gentleman with an open hand is being shown the picture of a grand neoclassical villa by a fortune teller. Etching, 1753.

1753

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The cheequer'd world's before thee go farewell, beware of Irishmen, and learn to spell; behold the dame, whose chiromantic power, foretells th' auspicious, or th' unlucky hour, and warns the world, what wonder maybe fall, to h-ll to virtue or to justice hall; a great house in Cheapside

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