A cat is carrying a cock in its mouth in front of a moated country house. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.

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The moated country house has four floors and two projecting wings

Illustration of the fable "The cat and the cock" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby

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Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 21.5 x 16.5 cm

Lettering

74. W. Hollar fec.

References note

R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 58

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39734i

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