The Dog in the Manger (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
 Related author John Ogilby British
 Subject Aesop Greek

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Fable of the Dog in the Manger; a dog sitting at right in a manger below a hay rack in a farm building, snarling at an ox, approaching with a peasant, holding a stick in his lifted hand; illustration to John Ogilby's 'Æsopic's: Or A Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations' .

The Dog in the Manger (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668), Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London), Etching; first state of two

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