Vignette by Loutherbourg for the Macklin Bible 36 of 134. Bowyer Bible Old Testament. Headpiece to The Song of Solomon, John Landseer, 1 January 1796

Head-piece to the song of solomon. Canticles 1:4. Vignette with a winged heart with flowers and a halo of stars standing upon a skull with snake coiling around it and an orb, a glowing hebrew inscription in sky above; letterpress in two columns below and on verso. 1796. Inscriptions: lettered below image, "p j de loutherbourg", "j. Landseer fec" and publication line: "published jany. 1796/ by t. M[ ] fleet st london". Print made by john landseer. Dimensions: height: 495 millimetres (sheet); width: 390 millimetres (sheet). Date: 1 January 1796.