The world as an egg: three cosmogonical figures. Etching by Barlow, 1795.

[London] : [W. Bulmer and Co. for the author], [1795]

1 print : etching ; platemark 18.2 x 23.8 cm

Asiatic devices allusive to the cosmogony. To his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, as a consummate judge of oriental mythology, this plate is respectfully inscribed by T.M. ; Barlow sculp.

The mundane egg of Heliopolis adorned with the lunar crescent. The great golden bull, adored at Meaco, in Japan, in the attitude of butting with his horn against the egg of chaos. The agathodaimon, or good genius, symbolized by a serpent circling in its genial embrace the mundane egg.

Wellcome Collection 726079i