A woodman is swinging an axe at a tree. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.

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Illustration for the fable "The woodman" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby

Behind the woodman is a pile of logs

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Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 22.1 x 16.5 cm

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Lettering

36. W. Hollar fec.

References note

R. Pennington, a descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 56

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39679i

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