The Peasant and the Snake (from John Ogilby, "The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations," London, 1665)
Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
Related author John Ogilby British
Subject Aesop Greek
Not on view
The fable of the peasant and the snake; a peasant raising an axe above a large, coiling snake, in the fenced yard of a farmhouse seen behind; tree partly cut through at left; illustration to John Ogilby's 'The Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations', London, 1665.