A bear is sniffing at a man lying face downwards on the ground while another man has taken refuge in a tree. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.

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1664
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A bear is sniffing at a man lying face downwards on the ground while another man has taken refuge in a tree. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Illustration of the fable "The foresters and the bear" by Aesop, translated and paraphrased by J. Ogilby

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1664.

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1 print : etching ; image 24.9 x 17.2 cm

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52. W. Hollar fec. 166[4]

References note

R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of W. Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 57

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Wellcome Collection 39703i

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