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
Not on view
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.