A large ox is looking down on a frog climbing out of a pond; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.

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Illustration of the fable "Ox and frog" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby

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1 print : etching ; image 24.3 x 16.4 cm

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Lettering

13. Ox Lettering in ink added at a later stage: Hollar fecit. Where no oxen are the crib is clean but much increase is by ye strength of ye ox. Prov. XIV. IV.

References note

R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 54

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39827i

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