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

 

Wenceslaus Hollar

  1607 - 1677 (biography)

1665  

etching 

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

unsigned 

N.A. 

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

Pennington 385, only state; New Hollstein (Hollar Part VI), only state 

antique-white laid with fleurs de lis watermark 

proof before letters (perhaps one of the supplemental unpublished plates) 

John Ogilby 

14346 

SOLD

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.