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Engraved interior scene: a robed man stands beside a seated woman in a long dress while another woman watches, with globes and instruments on a table.

An astrologer telling a lady's fortune

A dimly lit period interior with a coffered wooden ceiling, where a robed astrologer stands beside a seated woman in a full skirt and another woman stands behind her. Globes, instruments, open books and a jug crowd a carved table and cabinets in the foreground.

Artist
Renoux, Charles Caius, 1795-1846.
Date
[between 1835 and 1841?]
Medium
Lithographs
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3485 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1851.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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