print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1858,0724.94
Description: Plate 68: Jupiter and the Ass. An ass being loaded with hides by his master in foreground, a tanner preparing hides at right, the same ass carrying bottles in background, Jupiter in top right, a walled garden in left background; large empty lower margin; soiled plate; illustration to John Ogilby's "The Fables of Aesop" (London: 1665) Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Dirk Stoop; Published by: John Ogilby
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1665
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 257 millimetres; Width: 172 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one from a series of twenty-four, for comment see S.3112.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (57); Weigel 1843 / Suppléments au Peintre-Graveur de Adam Bartsch (162.48); Dutuit 1881-5 / Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes (VI.329.48)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: mammal; classical deity
Associated names: Illustration to: John Ogilby; Representation of: Zeus/Jupiter
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Rev Dr Philip Bliss; Purchased through: Sotheby's (26.vi.1858/279 (sale of his library)); Purchased through: Robertson
Acquisition date: 1858
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1858,0724.94

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