Two children are running towards a sheep with a crow on its back while an eagle in the sky above bears a lamb in its claws. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.

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

The same subject appears as a backdrop to the scene in the fable "The crow and the pitcher" (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 39649i)

More sheep in the background with woods and a castle

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 25 x 16.5 cm

80. W. Hollar fecit.

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

Wellcome Collection 39821i