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)

Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
Related author John Ogilby British
Subject Aesop Greek

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The fable of the tortoise and the frogs; a tortoise and several frogs on a riverbank at left, eels and other fish feeding on the softbodied frogs swimming in the stream; tall trees on the far side of the river at right, a wagon pulled by horses
travels from left to right in the middle distance.

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