A peasant is carrying the nest of a nightingale, which is is sitting on a bush and is about to be swooped by a hawk; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
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Illustration of the fable "The hawk and the nightingale" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby
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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 21.6 x 16.7 cm
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78. W. Hollar fec.
References note
R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 58
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Wellcome Collection 39774i
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