print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1873,0510.3559
- Description
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Fable of Capons Fat and Lean; an elegantly dressed bearded nobleman standing at right in a courtyard, holding a staff, conversing with a peasant woman, both pointing towards six fat capons; lean capon walking past a trough behind at left; illustration to John Ogilby's 'Æsopic's: Or A Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations' (London: 1668); first state. 1666
Etching
- Production date
- 1666
- Dimensions
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Height: 285 millimetres
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Width: 203 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1858,0724.106 for another impression and 1977,U.366.6 for second state.
See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2005-2034 for Hollar's etchings for this publication.
See Comment of 1847,0713.14
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Æsopic's: Or A Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations (1668)
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,0510.3559