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The Boar and the Ass (from John Ogilby, "The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations," 1665, or "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Aesop|John Ogilby|Wenceslaus Hollar

1665–68

Attribution
|Related author| Aesop|John Ogilby|Wenceslaus Hollar | | Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE|British, Forfarshire 1600–1676 London|Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London
Medium
Etching; only state
Physical dimensions
Sheet: 9 9/16 × 6 1/2 in. (24.3 × 16.5 cm) cut outside bordeline but within the platemark
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1920
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