The Peasant and the Snake (from John Ogilby, "The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations," London, 1665)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: John Ogilby|Aesop|Wenceslaus Hollar
Artist bio: British, Forfarshire 1600–1676 London|Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE|Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London
Artist role: Author|Subject|Artist
Artist nationality: British|Greek|Bohemian
Date: 1665
Medium: Etching; only state
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 6 1/2 in. (22 × 16.5 cm)
Cut outside borderline and within platemark all around
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession year: 1920