Wellcome Collection
A couple sit in lamplight at a table piled with books with their arms around one another. Engraving by N. Le Mire, 1795, after J.M. Moreau le Jeune, 1794.
Unknown artist
Lettering: Plura de amore quàm de lectione verba fe ingerebant; plura erant oscula quàm sententiæ. Sæpius ad sinus quàm ad libros reducebantur manus; crebriùs oculus amor in se reflectebat, quàm lectio in scripturam dirigebat;-verbera quandòque dabat amor, non furor. J.M. Moreau le Je. del l'An 2e. N. Le Mire, sculp, l'An 3e.
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