A cat with a mouse in its mouth is descending the stairs in a corn chamber while rats, mice and weasels are running around three piles of corn; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.

  • Aesop
Date:
1660-1669
Reference:
39711i
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Illustration of the fable "The old weasel and the mice" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby

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London] : [J. Ogilby]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 22.1 x 16.8 cm

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Lettering

59

References note

R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 58

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39711i

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