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A traveller is sitting in the shade of a tree with his cloak off and he is shown in the background buffetted by the wind, wrapping his cloak around him. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
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Credit: A traveller is sitting in the shade of a tree with his cloak off and he is shown in the background buffetted by the wind, wrapping his cloak around him. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
Illustration of the fable "The sun and the wind" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby
In the background a blast of wind from a cherub in the clouds is bending trees and creates a stormy sea
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; image 21.7 x 16.6 cm
Contributors
Lettering
65. W. Hollar fec.
References note
R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 58
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 39722i
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Languages
- Latin
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Location Status Access Closed stores