A potter runs towards a jug which a blast of wind from a cherub in the clouds has shattered. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by J. Ogilby.

  • Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
Date:
1666
Reference:
39650i
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Description

Six jugs are on the bench in the foreground

Illustration for the fable "The wind and the jug" by J. Ogilby

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1666.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 24.6 x 19.7 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Fab:29: W. Hollar fec. 1666

References note

R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Hollar, Cambridge 1982, p. 60

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39650i

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