A folio from Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy mb-artistname John Sanderson Wells Wollaston holds a pair of

Wollaston holds a pair of spectacles hinged on a case in his right hand and a sheet of paper in the right

Lambeth on the south bank is visible due to the meander of the Thames

Winter scene

Inscribed below: ' Lime-Kiln

A folio from Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy mb-artistname John Sanderson Wells Wollaston holds a pair ofA folio from Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, 1910. Ancinius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 c525) was a Roman Christian philosopher and author. He wrote his Consolation of Philosophy in prison in Pavia awaiting execution for treason against Theodoric the Great, the Ostrogoth ruler of Italy. A print from The Connoissevr', (London, 1910).