A peasant who was cutting down a tree turns his axe on a passing snake. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.

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

The farmyard and the house are in the background

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1665.

1 print : etching ; image 22.4 x 16.7 cm

25. W. Hollar fecit. 1665

R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 55

Wellcome Collection 39667i