A peasant who was cutting down a tree turns his axe on a passing snake. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.

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1665
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39667i
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A peasant who was cutting down a tree turns his axe on a passing snake. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Illustration for the fable "The peasant and the snake" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby

The farmyard and the house are in the background

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1665.

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1 print : etching ; image 22.4 x 16.7 cm

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25. W. Hollar fecit. 1665

References note

R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 55

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Wellcome Collection 39667i

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