A bear has overturned a beehive and is attacked by bees. Etching by J. Kirk after F.Barlow for a fable by Aesop.

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A bear has overturned a beehive and is attacked by bees. Etching by J. Kirk after F.Barlow for a fable by Aesop. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Illustration of the fable "The bear and the honey" by Aesop

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 12.6 x 15.3 cm

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The bear and the bee hives. F. Barlow delin. Ja.s Kirk fecit. 8. A bee's keen sting a bear did so enrage, that with the hives, a war he does engage: Lettering continues: The numbers join, and on their foe do fall, who grieves his private feud prov'd national. Moral. So petty tumults, by the rout pursu'd, have often mighty Commonwealths subdu'd

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