The Mountain in Labour (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 mountain in labour; a mouse at left sits in a cleft between two high rocks watched by a crowd at right; woman with small child seated in the foreground; large empty lower margin; illustration to John Ogilby's 'The Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations', London: 1665.

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