print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1882,0311.3689
Description: Fable of The Viper and the File; a viper trying to eat a file in a forge on a workbench at left; hearth at right; illustration to Croxall's 'Fables of Aesop, and Others' (Newcastle upon Tyne: 1783); proof. 1782 Wood-engraving
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Production date: 1782
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Dimensions: Height: 33 millimetres (image); Width: 41 millimetres (image)
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: reptile; tool/implement; allegory/personification
Associated names: Illustration to: Aesop; Illustration to: Samuel Croxall (translator and publisher)
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Acquisition date: 1882
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1882,0311.3689
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: I.B. 768

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