The Wolf and the Statue (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

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The fable of the wolf and the statue; a wolf inside a temple, facing left on a checkered floor amongst the remains of a statue, pawing the broken-off head; an altar in an alcove in the background with its candlesticks overturned, and fragments of another broken statue scattered around.

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