Two children are running towards a sheep with a crow on its back while an eagle in the sky above bears a lamb in its claws. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.

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Two children are running towards a sheep with a crow on its back while an eagle in the sky above bears a lamb in its claws. 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 eagle and the crow" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby

The same subject appears as a backdrop to the scene in the fable "The crow and the pitcher" (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 39649i)

More sheep in the background with woods and a castle

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 25 x 16.5 cm

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80. W. Hollar fecit.

References note

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

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Wellcome Collection 39821i

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