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Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
Related author John Ogilby British
Subject Aesop Greek
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Title: The Eagle and the Crow (from John Ogilby, "The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations," London, 1665)
Series/Portfolio: John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop and Aesopics
Artist:
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Author:
Related author John Ogilby (British, Forfarshire 1600–1676 London)
Subject:
Aesop (Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE)
Date: 1665
Medium: Etching; second state of two
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 6 1/2 in. (25 × 16.5 cm)
cut outside the borderline and within the platemark
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number: 20.81.1.74
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