print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1882,0311.5090
- Description
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Fable of The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-worm; a sexton digging a grave in a churchyard, leaning on a spade, conversing with two ravens, perching on a tree at left; an earth-worm approaching from right; skulls nearby; church behind at left; in an oval, within square border, broken vertical stripes in spandrels; illustration to 'Fables by the Late Mr. Gay' (London: 1788); proof.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1788 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 millimetres (image)
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Width: 71 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a volume bound in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Woodcuts. / Vol.II / By Bewick.' and on the inside with 'T. W. Waters Binder.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Fables by the late Mr. Gay
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0311.5090
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1983,U.2478
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Miscellaneous number: I.B. 255
