A pair of angling prints each captioned with quotes from Horace and Virgil: Sic omnia retro ... and: Piscium et summa genus hoesit ulmo ..

by Thomas McLEAN, publisher

$900 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A handsome and humourous pair of angling prints. The first image shows a fisherman with a slack line just after losing a fish and stepping into a cow pad, with the Virgil caption roughly translated as Thus all things change for the worse. The Horace quotation is a play on words, substituting Perchicos perch for Persicos i.e. Persian , and roughly translated as The finest perch is not for me. The second image shows an angler who has pulled a fish from the water

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