The Vanity of Human Wishes (from Robert Stapylton, Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal, 1660)
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The vanity of human wishes; men and women kneeling in a semi-circular open courtyard of a temple, praying before statues of classical deities; a kneeling Black boy hiding a frog behind his back, handing an ornate cup to a man, seated on the base of a pillar in foreground at left; illusttrates Robert Stapylton, "Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs," by Juvenal.