A frog is sitting under rushes in a bog facing a fox and surrounded by other animals; illustration of a fable. Etching by J. Kirk after F. Barlow.
- Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704.
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- 39908i
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1 print : etching ; image 12.9 x 16 cm
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The fox and the frog. 6. F. Barlow delin. Ja. s. Kirk fecit. A bog-born frog a doctor wou'd commence, and the dull herd trusts his false eloquence:
Lettering continues: But the more subtile fox in scorn replies, to give me faith, cure thy own maladies. Moral. Vain are the precepts they do others give, who themselves in ill example live,
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Wellcome Collection 39908i
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