The Forester and the Bear (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 forester, the skinner and the bear; the forester lies on the ground, feigning death, as the bear stands beside him with its muzzle to his head; the man who wished to buy a bearskin look down from the branches of a tree at right, wood beyond;
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