The Tortoise and the Frogs (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: Aesop|John Ogilby|Wenceslaus Hollar
Artist bio: Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE|British, Forfarshire 1600–1676 London|Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London
Artist role: Subject|Author|Artist
Artist nationality: Greek|British|Bohemian
Date: 1665
Medium: Etching; only state
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 6 9/16 in. (21.9 × 16.6 cm)
cut outside the borderline but within the platemark all around
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession year: 1920