A lion dressed as a doctor is examining a horse's hoof; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.

  • Aesop.
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[between 1600 and 1699]
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39721i
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A lion dressed as a doctor is examining a horse's hoof; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

In the porch of a church three foxes sit preventing a crowd of animals from entering the church, while an ass in an outside pulpit is preaching to another crowd of animals

Illustration of the fable "The lion and the horse" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby

Publication/Creation

[London] : [Thomas Roycroft?], [between 1600 and 1699]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 22.1 x 16.8 cm

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Lettering

64

References note

R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 58

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39721i

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