Accession number
PML 145850.94
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.
Published
[London? : s.n.], 1665.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Pennington.
Print issued as an illustration for one of the various editions of Aesop illustrated with Hollar's engravings.
Mounted as item 94 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed to image.
Print issued as an illustration for one of the various editions of Aesop illustrated with Hollar's engravings.
Mounted as item 94 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : etching ; 226 x 169 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a lion sitting in its lair at right, enrobed and crowned, with orb and sceptre, a fox fleeing to left; behind at left, the fox and the lion in a field. Signed "W. Hollar fec." and dated 1665 at bottom.
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