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

Wenceslaus Hollar|Aesop|John Ogilby

1666 · Etching; first state of two · Drawings and Prints

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' .

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar|Aesop|John Ogilby

Date

1666

Medium

Etching; first state of two

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962