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The Cat and the Cock (from Aesop's Fables, after Francis Clein); plate 14 by Wenceslaus Hollar

The Cat and the Cock (from Aesop's Fables, after Francis Clein); plate 14

Wenceslaus Hollar

Title

The Cat and the Cock (from Aesop's Fables, after Francis Clein); plate 14

 

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

  1607 - 1677 (biography)

Year

1665  

Technique

etching 

Image Size

8 7/16 x 6 1/2" image size; 9-7/8 x 6-3/4" plate size 

Signature

unsigned 

Edition Size

N.A. 

Annotations

in pencil, in margins: Hollar 1668; (proof) Wenzel Hollar 1665; engraved outside of image, lower right: 14. 

Reference

 

Paper

antique-white laid with fleurs de lis watermark 

State

proof before letters (perhaps one of the supplemental unpublished plates) 

Publisher

John Ogilby 

Inventory ID

14346 

Price

$400.00 

Description

A proof before letters of plate 14 from the series of 58 plates commissioned by British printer and publisher John Ogilby after designs by Francis Clein. Ogilby had translated the Fables.